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The difference between Constantinople, City of Istanbul, and Istanbul (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Unknown source, just found it on Facebook and last trace I found is this Reddit post but it isn't marked as OC: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gmky0e/the_difference_between_constantinople_city_of/

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I recently learned that Istanbul is actually a Greek based mashup word for "the city"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

If you look deep enough, pretty much every city's name is actually some banale description of the location or some guy who was relevant to it's founding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I only recently learned that Budapest was originally two separate cities on opposite sides of a river named Buda and Pest.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Examples of this in the cities of Scotland that we can actually trace the etymologies of:

Perth: "Copse". Perth is in a forested area
Aberdeen: "Mouth of Devona's river". Devona was an old Celtic goddess, and Aberdeen actually lies between the mouths of two rivers named for her
Inverness: "Mouth of the roaring river". Inver- derives from the Gaelic branch of the Celtic languages, whereas Aber- comes from the Brythonic branch. It's at the mouth of the river Ness, which is one of the fastest-discharging rivers in the UK
Glasgow: "green hollow". "Hollow" here is in the sense of a small valley. Glasgow is one of the rainiest cities in Europe and also has a remarkably temperate climate for being at the same latitude as Moscow, so it probably was very green before it became a city

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

The rivers here are names of colors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So is Al-Madinah (literally 'The City') in KSA.

Makes me wish I could register “the pen” as a trademark or something and start selling pens under that name. I wonder if that also makes it impossible for anyone ever find this brand online.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Technically, Al-Madinah is shortened for Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, which means The Luminous City.

So maybe you could sell 'the luminous pen' instead 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That would also make SEO so much easier.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Actually, it likely means "in/to/into Constantinople" (p. 240), and Constantinople itself is named after Constantine the Great.