[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.

[Trinity5]

I’ll assume you didn’t get the song reference?

[pepsi_junkie]

Constantinople was named after Constatine: the first Christian Roman emporer,

I collect ancient coins and just purchased what is considered to be the very first depiction of god, a coin right after constantine died showing him wearing a shroud on the front and on the back he's riding a charriot and reaching up as the hand of God reaches down to take him.

They are plentiful and cheap, this one isn't mine but it shows the imagery. I'm not sure how committed Constantine was to christianity, this coin (minted by his son) calls him "Divus Constantinus", or the divine (deified) Constantine. But on the back, well, there's God.