• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    What’s interesting is that the name “Istanbul” is still Greek.

    it developed in Turkish 16c. as a corruption of Greek phrase eis tan (ten) polin “in (or to) the city,” which is how the local Greek population referred to it.

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      NEEEEEERD!

      … actually I was rolling into the comments to say the same thing. Right on brother