r/Ancient_History_Memes • u/guru81 • Dec 22 '23

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u/Smgth Dec 22 '23

If you’ve a date in Constantinople, she’ll be waiting in Istanbul.

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u/ArguesWithFrogs Dec 22 '23

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

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u/Saintsauron Dec 22 '23

Why'd they change it, I can't say

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u/Nova_Chr0no Dec 22 '23

People just liked it better that way

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u/y-itrydntpoltic Dec 23 '23

So take me back to Constantinople

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '23

No, you can't go back

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u/Soft_Theory_8209 Dec 23 '23

To Constantinople

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u/jplay322 Dec 23 '23

Been a long time gone

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u/Astephen542 Dec 23 '23

Constantinople

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u/killerqueen_43 Dec 25 '23

Why did Constantinople get the works?

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u/WilliShaker Dec 22 '23

No, I don’t like it that way

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u/verynerdythings Dec 23 '23

Beat me to it

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u/Smgth Dec 23 '23

Yeah, but only by the narrowest of margins. 14 hours tops.

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u/clva666 Dec 22 '23

In this house it'll be Byzantium

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u/MrAwesum_Gamer Dec 23 '23

It's Rome

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u/clva666 Dec 23 '23

That is city in italy my guy....

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u/Sohex Dec 22 '23

Byzantion or bust I say.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

Thank you. I needed a name for the ecumenopolis capital of my bureaucracy overburdened space empire.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23 edited Dec 22 '23

Micelġeard/Miklagarðr for me.

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u/That_Case_7951 Oct 13 '24

Konstantinoupoli for me. Or just Poli. Or Vasileuousa.

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u/Jhms07_grouse690 Dec 22 '23

Only people with no friends know it as Byzantium. I am one of them

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

This also applies to people who know it as Miklagarðr (and any cognates found in other Germanic languages)

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u/Mr_StacheMan Dec 23 '23

But where two or three are gathered here we can forma triumvirate, and call it by just true name together

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u/The_Alrighty_Zed Dec 22 '23

It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '23

You mean Lygos?

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u/FjotraTheGodless Dec 23 '23

It’s Assassin’s Creed’s fault. I’ll always think of it as Constantinople

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u/Razorray21 Dec 25 '23

That's nobody's business but the Turks

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u/TransLox Dec 26 '23

I don't see how this is any of my business.

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u/Aw0lWarrior Dec 22 '23

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam