Message from @KoalaBear
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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"
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