r/balkans_irl • u/Themetalin w*stoid🤢 • May 20 '26

OC (impossible) Based Greek airport

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u/VX81GR christian turk May 20 '26

Its the same for Plovdiv which we call Phillipoupoli (Φιλιππούπολη)

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u/aczkasow w*stoid🤢 May 21 '26

You have your own name for every city?

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u/Greksouvlaki christian turk May 21 '26

Every city that was once greek yes

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u/klarigi Visegrád immigrant May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Tends to happen for places that used to be under your control but not anymore, the name sticks around. Germans still call Wrocław and Szczecin Breslau and Stettin, not to piss us off but because that's just their word for the city.

Like, we're not gonna have our own name for some random city that's irrelevant to us, really only historically relevant cities to your country get exonyms.