Sorry, Snowball. If you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul...
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks'
I never looked into it until today, and apparently the names aren't as different as I thought:
“We are not sure how [the name Istanbul] was developed as it emerged from the Greek and we are not sure how far it goes back,” Ahmed says. “It means to the city, so if you see the word Constantinople it has the word Stan and Pol in it as it was called Constantinopolis. It simply means I Sten Pol meaning within the city, probably meaning within the old city walls.”
Why did Constantinople get the works? The name was too long for the Tuuuurks!
That image saw better times
I'm pretty sure that image saw the fall of Constantinople…
It has more artifacts.
I can’t read the subtitle (flavor text?) and I don’t know if that’s part of it
"My little shnookums might want to sit down for this..."
Fall of Constantinople? More like the conquest of Konstantinyye !!!
I have seen this before under the tirle:
"Cómo hablar con tu perro sobre homosexualidad y comunismo"
Pure genius
Edit: Also, needs more jpeg
