Message from @KoalaBear
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@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.
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.