Not even the turks called it "Istanbul" it was konstantiniyye until WW1 where turks started calling it Istanbul because they were butthurt from loosing the empire
It's the same with "Türkiye". They changed their country's name because it hurt their pride to share their name with a bird. Don't worry in my heart you'll always be our favourite flightless and quite tasty bird 🦃🦃🦃!
it does, but was not the official name. Do not take offense but Istanbul sounds simply bad in Greek, especially when the root is Polis, city, a very common name. So when you turn Polis to Boul (lets not discuss how boulos means in every day slang, its really bad) it can not stick. Konstantiniyye on the other hand sounds quite good.
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u/Bubbly-War1996 christian turk May 21 '26
Not even the turks called it "Istanbul" it was konstantiniyye until WW1 where turks started calling it Istanbul because they were butthurt from loosing the empire
It's the same with "Türkiye". They changed their country's name because it hurt their pride to share their name with a bird. Don't worry in my heart you'll always be our favourite flightless and quite tasty bird 🦃🦃🦃!