Context: The Greeks used to say 'εἰς τὴν πόλιν' (eis tin polin), which the Turks said as Is-tan-bul. The phrase meaning 'to the city'
Means, "is the city", yeah? Like, the Greeks just referred to it as The City?
Pretty unrelated, but I always wondered if the -pur ending for Indian cities was a cognate of -polis.