im not that kind of a person

Islam is fucking shit and in desperate need of reform, though.

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Islam as a whole should just disintegrate

Iam nick crompton coming from london

Weather report; Acid attacks

Plus the Greek in me is fucking pissed the Turkroaches took Constantinople, so there’s that too.

And yeah, die out or reform.

Please.

just die out

no race mix

I’m tired of not being able to criticize Islam with being called racist, lmao.

@Ｋ▲ＩＳＥＲ excuse me but you probably mean Carigrad witch had slavs living in the suburbs

It’s not even a fucking race like wtf.

Carigrad?

Indeed

Constantinople?

During the Byzantine empire, the tsar as was located there

Hence Carigrad

Konstantinopel only means Constantine's town or city or whatever

Carigrad means Tsar's city

**uhhhh s🅾️rry sir it’s called TZ🅰️RGRAD now xaxaxaxa**

It was always called that

All slavs call it that

I’m aware.

Right

Better in the hands of a Slav than a Turk, though.

It went from Bizanc to Carigrad tho

Bizanc, obviously from Byzantium, correct?

Well no, the city itself was always greek populated

The suburbs were slavic, as most of the greek cities

True that.

Well the slovenes usually transfrom the unessesary suffix -(ti)um into ec

Hm, nice.

Let's see, for example

Ptuj was converted into Poetoio I believe

Since latin pronounciations

Makes sense.

Like let's look at mainland Turkey place names

Izmir

With the suffix -mir

Meaning "peace"

Literally meaning "from peace"

Or "Myrna" >Mirna directly meaning "quiet or peaceful town (female)"

I’m aware that a lot of a lot of the current Turkish cities/regions sound similar to how they did when they were Greek, like Konstantinyye was Constantinople (before it was renamed Istanbul), Konya was Iconium, Trabzon was Trebizond/Trapezium, and a few more.

I'm pretty sure if you give me old place names in all of europe I'd be able to pull out a slavic meaning

Uh

St. Petersburg

Petrograd

Peter's burg

Simple as that

🅱etersburg

Or Leningrad back during the Soviet times, obviously meaning City of Lenin.

oh no

Renames

How about... Sevastopol.

Grad actually means "castle" or building area

We just have a tradition of calling cities as "castles"

But we still use "place" as town

Like west slavs do

The south slavs use grad as both castle and city

Sevastopol by the apperance is totally greek

You see the pol

Right.

/sevastopol/

I don't know the polis of sevas?

Next, Warsaw.

Varšava

Female city name

šava is a suffix

var is like "fortification" or like defence tower

Var(nost) means protection

you see vars throughout the balkans and in hungary

Like Varaždin and Bijelovar and other stuff

Damn, never knew Warsaw meant that much.

Every city has some meaning

Its slovene tradition

Every village is named either by saint, church, lake, pond, the market, the things you do there, people

anything

Oh varašava is slovenian, my bad

Warszawa is polish

But thats just pronouncation

What about Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capitol?

v vs w

Ok lemme clear it first

The lj and nj you see

Its made up

Forced into slovenian

via "yugoslav unification"

But thats how the government still is.

Fucking yugophiles

those like softening pronouncations, the slovenes don't have

Only the serbs and croats

Not even the macedons

Honestly I don’t find the concept of a united west Balkans as a bad idea, it was just executed too badly (like the Serbs having too much power and such).

For example, the true macedon Skopje vs the forced serbian Skoplje

Lublana

Lubje means that thing you can peel off from trees

Or it can be something to do with love

But doubt it