[Ciaphas Cain]

Why’d they change it I can’t say.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Why’d they change it I can’t say.

Constantinople was named after Constatine: the first Christian Roman emporer, the founding father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Roman emperor who rebuilt Byzantine after it was destroyed and looted during Rome's "Crisis of the Third Century."

The Islamic renaissance of the 1930s could not bear a capital city under their rule named after an important Christian.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And wrote a song about it.