To: Nikas777
From “Eis thn Polis”. Istanbul just sounds more Turkish.
2 posted on
08/19/2009 9:41:45 AM PDT by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Kolokotronis
Actually, if you read the article Istanbul does not sound Turkish at all - it is not even a properly Turkified way of saying it.
3 posted on
08/19/2009 10:49:59 AM PDT by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Kolokotronis; Nikas777
Didn’t the government allow Constantinople to be used as late as the middle 1930’s, although Istanbul was preferred?
7 posted on
08/19/2009 3:33:23 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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