Istanbul not Constantinople



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Istanbul is Turkey's most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. The city covers 25 districts of the Istanbul province. It is located at 41° N 29° E, on the Bosphorus strait, and encompasses the natural harbor known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends b
oth on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) side of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world which is situated on two continents. In its long history, Istanbul (Constantinople) served as the capital city of the Roman Empire (330-395), the Byzantine Empire (395-1204
and 1261-1453), the Latin Empire (1204-1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453-1922). The city was chosen as joint European Capital of Culture for 2010. The "Historic Areas of Istanbul" were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985. "Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantin
ople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say Peop
le just liked it better that way So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul (Istanbul) Istanbul (Istanbul) Even old New York was once New Amste
rdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works That's nobody's business but the Turks So take me back to Constantinople No, you ca
n't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works That's nobody's business but the Turks " Istanbul


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Also, starting from ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
Also, starting from at the alsolute latest with Bayezid all the way to conquerer to WW1, their leaders where white europeans from the balkans due to the preferance for christian harem women. So your comment replying to xxlswanson that those countires were overrun by the turks is only partly true. Sure turks made up the bulk of the soldiers, but the leadership, including the sultans and grand vizors (often Albanians), were largely european. In other words, your turkish pride is bullshit.
Lets look at the ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
Lets look at the lineages of the sultans. I will count Mehmed the Conquerer as a full blooded turk even though he wasn't. His great-grandfather, Bayezid I, has half greek, but I don't know the ethnicity of Murad II mother or Mehmed I mother. They could have been turk. Mehmed's mother was probably not Turk. Anyway:
(Bayezid II - 1/2 Turk. Son of Mehmed the Conqurer and a greek) (Selim I - 1/4 Turk. Son of Bayezid and a greek) (Suleiman the Magnificent - 3/4 Turk. Son of Selim and a Crimean Turk)
(Selim II - 1/4 ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
(Selim II - 1/4 Turk. Son of Suleiman and Roxelana, a Ukranian) (Murad III - 1/8 Turk. Son of Selim II and a Venitian) (Mehmed III - 1/16 Turk. Son of Murad III and an Albanian) (Ahmed I - 1/32 Turk. Son of Murad III and a greek) (Murad IV - 1/64 Turk. Son of Ahmed and a greek) (Mehmed IV - 1/128 Turk. Son of Murad IV's brother and a Russian) (Ahmed III - 1/256 Turk. Son of Mehmed IV and a greek) (Mahmud I - 1/512 Turk. Son of Ahmed III's brother and a greek)
That takes you up ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
That takes you up to 1754. Obviously it would be a stretch to call the sutlans "Turks" in the sense of the central asian nomads.
WTF. Its ok to ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
WTF. Its ok to pretend Muslims and the Ottomans were exceptionally tolerant and createded some sort of medieval utopia, but to point that absurdity is hateful? Why aren't you upset at the other posters who are essentially saying that the evil acts committed by Muslims were for the benefit Christians!?
obviously istanbul ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
obviously istanbul today is a different city that its days as constantinople. it isn't any more rightfully greek than alexandria in egypt. of course you cant live in the past, and i am not saying istanbul or anatolia are rightfully christian. but lets be honest. if it wasn't for infighting between europeans, by now the mosques of istanbul would probably have been redecorated with onion domes.
Your reply is ... ( 4 weeks ago by orrin73)
Your reply is bullshit. Why are you so obsessed with race. Are you by any chance white supremacist? The Ottoman sultans had large harems, not all mothers of sultans were "europeans", some where but not all. The reason why there were many balkan origin grand viziers and other bureaucrats is that the Turks were tolerant to others, the insurrections of anatolian Turks against the Sultans was one of the main reasons balkan people were accepted in courts.
Ottoman and Turk ... ( 4 weeks ago by orrin73)
Ottoman and Turk are interchangeable since the Turks founded the Ottoman empire as a Turkish empire. Read the chronicles written by the enemies of the Ottomans and how they viewed and mentioned them. They mention them as "Turks". Are you by any chance a balkan slav?
The expulsion of ... ( 4 weeks ago by orrin73)
The expulsion of the greeks was made with the approval of the greek government of the time. The Turks in greece were expelled to Turkey, it was a population transfer agreed by both nations. The armenians were a minority in eastern anatolia, they sided with the advancing russian troops, the Ottoman government transferred them from the front to Iraq and Syria. The Turks never imposed the Turkish identity on anyone in the balkans! You are wrong on that.
If it wasn't for ... ( 4 weeks ago by orrin73)
If it wasn't for the infighting of the Ottoman politicians in the early 17th century europe could have been Turkish.
How did the Ottoman ... ( 4 weeks ago by orrin73)
How did the Ottoman Sultans view themselves??? and what language did they speak??? Get real man, They have always seen themselves as Turks, they were not any different then the Seldjuk sultans or the Khwarizm shah's. They were all Turks and saw them as Turks.
Let me start off by ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
Let me start off by apologizing for initiating a hostile tone with these comments. I should have been more civil, but it is an important issue for me. Not because of identity issues. I am not white or Christian. I am simply a nationalist tired of the rampant Muslim apologists that abound in Western nations. Based on your profile and subscriptions you appear to be a Dutch Turk. As you know, the Turkish government is highly nationalistic and you know what happens to those that insult Turkishness.
I am anti-Islam, ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
I am anti-Islam, but that does not mean I am pro-Christian. I wish both sides would acknowledge the atrocities committed their forebearers. Anyway, we seem to simply disagree about "Who is a Turk." Like I said earlier, I think the concept of Turkishness is a fallacy. We know the original Turks were Central Asiatic nomads, but most modern Turks appear entirely largely Mediterranean. I don't know if there are any genetic studies on the topic.
At what point did ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
At what point did the Turks stop being Asiatic and how much Balkan and Greek blood was absorbed by the general population? I don't know, but as I pointed out, by the mid 1700's the Sultans were hardly "Turk" in the original sense. I doubt the general population was immune to the same effect. So to me being "Turkish" is like an American with a German surname being proud to be German, despite the fact that most of his ancestors might an assortement of other immigrant European peoples.
Russia is another ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
Russia is another example of a country with rulers unsimilar to its people. During Russia's greatest time of expansion, and when it most threatened the Ottoman Empire, the Tsars were largely Germanic. So during the height of the Russian-Ottoman Wars you had German led Slavs attacking Turks led by Sultans with mostly Greek and Slavic ancestors. This shows my point that Turkish identity is rather tenuous. Turk seems to mean any Muslim enemy of Christiandom inhabiting Anatolia and the Balkans.
I am not saying ... ( 4 weeks ago by Vedj3)
I am not saying Turkish identity was imposed on the people of the Balkans. Turkish identity was imposed on the people of Anatolia, just as the reconquista sought to impose a Christian identity on Iberia. The reconquista was basically a nationalistic struggle. It was essentially a process of decolonisation. 500 years later, in the now Turkish homeland, similar efforts at forming a national identity took place so that now everyone is "Turk" rather those people they may acctually be descended from.
i grow up there ... ( 3 weeks ago by 1979gani)
i grow up there like napleon said if the world is a one country istanbul shuld be capital
vedj3, go shoot ... ( 2 weeks ago by sonusername)
vedj3, go shoot your self, will ya? you skillfully ruined this video for me.
Lol my Social ... ( 2 weeks ago by LilMzzLexi)
Lol my Social Studies showed us this.
yo cool my social ... ( 2 weeks ago by 2oo6bob)
yo cool my social studies teacher showed this in my class, lol
My music teacher ... ( 1 week ago by SonicAndNiGHTS)
My music teacher showed us this?
Exactly, thats why ... ( 1 week ago by ITSKonstantinoupolis)
Exactly, thats why the Romans made Constantinople, and thats why the Greeks died defending it. It was their identity, the center of their world. Travelers from all over the world have always been mesmerized by the beauty and power of Constantinople, and Constantinople will continue to do so.
What are you ... ( 1 week ago by elplasta)
What are you talking?Iberia before the arabs was Christian,the arabs invade Spain and Portugal the impose was for part of the arabs.
Yeah my Social ... ( 22 hours ago by ChaosFlame64)
Yeah my Social studies teacher showed us this in class too lol




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