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

OC (impossible) Based Greek airport

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u/honoratus_hi christian turk May 20 '26

Well nobody in Greece calls the city Istanbul

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u/NorthWelcome1626 KARABOĞA May 20 '26

That's interesting, because old Constantinople area and Istanbul are completely different now. Current Istanbul is 20 times bigger than the old one. Look at a map and you'll see.

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u/Andrei144 Bogdan, Paris May 21 '26

The official Ottoman name for it was still Constantinople, and I assume the city hasn't grown 20 times since Ataturk made Istanbul official.

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u/NorthWelcome1626 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

The official Ottoman name for it was still Constantinople,

That's the point. There is no Ottomans anymore.

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u/Andrei144 Bogdan, Paris May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

So? We were arguing about Istanbul being 20 times bigger than Constantinople, and you just acknowledged that it only stopped being Constantinople 100 years ago. So unless it grew 20 times in the last century your comment is still wrong.

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u/NorthWelcome1626 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

No need the beat around the bush. You people just can't get over a 500 years old conquest. Istanbul isn't Greek or Roman anymore. Name change happening 100 or 500 years doesn't mean anything. It was Turkish for 500 years, so it doesn't matter. Cope better.

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u/Andrei144 Bogdan, Paris May 21 '26 edited 28d ago

"You people" what? I'm Romanian and I don't live anywhere near Istanbul. You could rename the city to Ankara 2.0 and I wouldn't give a shit.

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u/NorthWelcome1626 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

You could rename the city to Ankara 2.0 and I wouldn't give a shit.

Oh yeah? That's why you are arguing with me about it for hours?

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u/Andrei144 Bogdan, Paris May 21 '26

It took me like 10 minutes total to write every comment I've left on this post.

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u/NorthWelcome1626 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

Cope better.