Message from @KoalaBear

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2018-04-18 20:11:02 UTC  

It was always called that

2018-04-18 20:11:07 UTC  

All slavs call it that

2018-04-18 20:11:15 UTC  

I’m aware.

2018-04-18 20:11:31 UTC  

Right

2018-04-18 20:11:42 UTC  

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

2018-04-18 20:11:44 UTC  

It went from Bizanc to Carigrad tho

2018-04-18 20:12:12 UTC  

Bizanc, obviously from Byzantium, correct?

2018-04-18 20:12:14 UTC  

Well no, the city itself was always greek populated

2018-04-18 20:12:24 UTC  

The suburbs were slavic, as most of the greek cities

2018-04-18 20:12:28 UTC  

True that.

2018-04-18 20:13:07 UTC  

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

2018-04-18 20:13:24 UTC  

Hm, nice.

2018-04-18 20:13:35 UTC  

Let's see, for example

2018-04-18 20:14:01 UTC  

Ptuj was converted into Poetoio I believe

2018-04-18 20:14:16 UTC  

Since latin pronounciations

2018-04-18 20:14:46 UTC  

Makes sense.

2018-04-18 20:15:19 UTC  

Like let's look at mainland Turkey place names

2018-04-18 20:15:22 UTC  

Izmir

2018-04-18 20:15:28 UTC  

With the suffix -mir

2018-04-18 20:15:35 UTC  

Meaning "peace"

2018-04-18 20:15:44 UTC  

Literally meaning "from peace"

2018-04-18 20:16:52 UTC  

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

2018-04-18 20:18:40 UTC  

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.

2018-04-18 20:18:57 UTC  

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

2018-04-18 20:19:21 UTC  

Uh

2018-04-18 20:19:33 UTC  

St. Petersburg

2018-04-18 20:19:41 UTC  

Petrograd

2018-04-18 20:19:45 UTC  

Peter's burg

2018-04-18 20:19:48 UTC  

Simple as that

2018-04-18 20:20:15 UTC  

🅱etersburg

2018-04-18 20:20:17 UTC  

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

2018-04-18 20:20:27 UTC  

oh no

2018-04-18 20:20:29 UTC  

Renames

2018-04-18 20:20:46 UTC  

How about... Sevastopol.

2018-04-18 20:20:54 UTC  

Grad actually means "castle" or building area

2018-04-18 20:21:07 UTC  

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

2018-04-18 20:21:17 UTC  

But we still use "place" as town

2018-04-18 20:21:22 UTC  

Like west slavs do

2018-04-18 20:21:35 UTC  

The south slavs use grad as both castle and city

2018-04-18 20:21:52 UTC  

Sevastopol by the apperance is totally greek

2018-04-18 20:21:56 UTC  

You see the pol