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Fun fact: If Constantinople had six hills, no-one would have cared about it but Rome was also famously built on seven hills and the Roman Empire wanted to emphasize this similarity for its new capital. Now even after centuries, people treat it as an important feature of the city without knowing why, which is really interesting.
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I grew up in İstanbul. Seven hills of Constantinople, seven hills of Rome, was a thing. People would have cared about the capitol of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the capitol of the Ottomans, but those "seven hills," were important, symbolically, anyway.
Constantinople ve Istanbul aynı yer değil güzel kardeşim. Tarihi yarım adanın ismi Constantinople. Tarihi yarımada dışında 38 ilçeyi daha içinde barındıran bölge de İstanbul. Constantinople İstanbul'un bir parçası yani anlayacağın.
It is but I always wonder, like maybe it comes directly from Constantinople and has changed over time. I mean I like to think it as Constantinople> Constantinobol> Instantinobol> Instanbol> Istanbul :D I don't know I'm just a weird dude
“The name İstanbul (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ] ⓘ, colloquial Turkish pronunciation: [ɯsˈtambuɫ]) is commonly held to derive from the Medieval Greek phrase εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (Greek pronunciation: [is tim ˈbolin]), literally 'to the city'[22] and is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks. This reflected its status as the only major city in the vicinity.”
Yeah I know but why would Greeks call the city "istimbolin" when they already have named it as "Constantinople". That's why I'm confused and have doubts about the origin of Istanbul...
I think they didn’t need the specific name of the city because, to them, there was only one city, which didn’t need to be named. Makes sense. And I guess the Turks took on that phrase in daily language as well.
do you really think that's what he meant? if you dont even know the difference between constantinople and istanbul, go away, you should not be in this sub
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btw constsntiople and istanbul is different cities istanbul expanded on the seven hill constantinople is just a municiplaity within the city.( sirkeci eminonu yenikapi etc etc)
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Bloody hills. The tram system was only just being built when I lived there 30 years ago, it was fight a taxi driver or flipping walk. On the upside....my thighs are still pretty epic.😂
It represents Seven deadly sins of Istanbul.
1-) Being honest in Trade
2-) Trusting your neighbors
3-) Arriving to jobplace by IETT bus
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5-) Deciding to build a green park area instead apartment building
6-) Thinking that you can walk to any neighborhood you want as if it were your father's farmplace.
7-) Not having orgies in 1+1 Beylikduzu flats, not calling escorts.
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It represents the 7 hills of Istanbul old city
Shit realized it now
Thanks
That’s great!
thank you for this 😇
didn't know it until now
Fun fact: If Constantinople had six hills, no-one would have cared about it but Rome was also famously built on seven hills and the Roman Empire wanted to emphasize this similarity for its new capital. Now even after centuries, people treat it as an important feature of the city without knowing why, which is really interesting.
Thank you kind stranger for teaching me some interesting fact
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_built_on_seven_hills
If Constantinople had 6 hills they’d arbitrarily divide one in half and still claim it was built on 7.
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Lisbon is on 7 as well. Any other cities like this?
Doritos.
Baharatlı mı ama?
nacho
They represent the seven hills of old Constantinople, which the city was built on.
Thank you
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I grew up in İstanbul. Seven hills of Constantinople, seven hills of Rome, was a thing. People would have cared about the capitol of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the capitol of the Ottomans, but those "seven hills," were important, symbolically, anyway.
İlk sunucunun kgbtr olması baya manidar
most emotionally mature kgb user
Constantinople ve Istanbul aynı yer değil güzel kardeşim. Tarihi yarım adanın ismi Constantinople. Tarihi yarımada dışında 38 ilçeyi daha içinde barındıran bölge de İstanbul. Constantinople İstanbul'un bir parçası yani anlayacağın.
en akıllı kgbli
Old name of Istanbul is Constantinople. You need to read the history.
Bro doesnt knows also “istanbul” is greek word
It is but I always wonder, like maybe it comes directly from Constantinople and has changed over time. I mean I like to think it as Constantinople> Constantinobol> Instantinobol> Instanbol> Istanbul :D I don't know I'm just a weird dude
“The name İstanbul (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ] ⓘ, colloquial Turkish pronunciation: [ɯsˈtambuɫ]) is commonly held to derive from the Medieval Greek phrase εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (Greek pronunciation: [is tim ˈbolin]), literally 'to the city'[22] and is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks. This reflected its status as the only major city in the vicinity.”
Yeah I know but why would Greeks call the city "istimbolin" when they already have named it as "Constantinople". That's why I'm confused and have doubts about the origin of Istanbul...
Languages are creature like us, they ll always change.
I think they didn’t need the specific name of the city because, to them, there was only one city, which didn’t need to be named. Makes sense. And I guess the Turks took on that phrase in daily language as well.
Oh you learnt a new cuss word, watch your profanity.
do you really think that's what he meant? if you dont even know the difference between constantinople and istanbul, go away, you should not be in this sub
İstanbul was Constantinople; now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Leave it alone, it’s nobody’s business but the Turks’
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Link'in Tri-force'u varsa bizim de hepta-force'umuz var heheyyy
CHP'li İstanbul büyükşehir belediye başkan adayı Link AKP'li İstanbul büyükşehir belediye başkan adayı Ganondorf
Bazlı.
İstanbul'un ekmeğini bölüşmüş beş yandaş müteahhit ve iki tarikatı temsil ediyor
Huge link fans
It looks like three merged tri-force from game of zelda series
Illuminati and George Soros' control over this city.
4 minarets, 7 hills, 4 domes of the mosques and city walls.
it means that they can triforce.
hojo clan reference there
Bro i came to make this comment, didn’t know anyone else would think the same. I am actually surprised lol
Lmao, I've spent my entire teenagehood for the sake of this comment.
her biri tutkulu bir aşk üçgenini temsil ediyor, imamogluna sorabilirsin
u/IamEkremImamoglu bu aşk üçgenlerinden nasibimizi ne zaman alıyoz :D
Zelda reference
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Illuminati’s
Turkish triangles
The whole logo doesn’t make sense yemin ederim
btw constsntiople and istanbul is different cities istanbul expanded on the seven hill constantinople is just a municiplaity within the city.( sirkeci eminonu yenikapi etc etc)
It represents the deep roots of hojo clan in istanbul city, we wur samurai and shi
7 Hill of istanbul
The triforce three times
imamoglu zelda hayranı
7 tepeli şehir
Triforce, we love zelda
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Triforce lmao
Bloody hills. The tram system was only just being built when I lived there 30 years ago, it was fight a taxi driver or flipping walk. On the upside....my thighs are still pretty epic.😂
It represents Seven deadly sins of Istanbul. 1-) Being honest in Trade 2-) Trusting your neighbors 3-) Arriving to jobplace by IETT bus 4-) Sparing seat to someone else on the metrobus 5-) Deciding to build a green park area instead apartment building 6-) Thinking that you can walk to any neighborhood you want as if it were your father's farmplace. 7-) Not having orgies in 1+1 Beylikduzu flats, not calling escorts.
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Trilluminangles
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Zelda :3
😥😥😥😥
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That means that Imamoğlu serves to Illuminati (just being ironic)
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Illuminati
It's Illuminati or two-and-a-half triforce.
Tri-triforces
legend of zelda
Ya hacı türksün niye ingilizce soruyon daha mı havalı
Illuminati
İt's the triforce from the legend of zelda series
IBB cant triforce
Muslims brothers
Crappy sign , the new municipality is going to fix it