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'
Why did Constantinople get the works,
That's nobody's business but the... Greeks?
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Thanks, now I've got that song stuck in my head again.
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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.
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they honestly had a missed opportunity to loosely translate the bulgarian name tbh Tsaringrad -> Padişahşehir or Hünkârşehir (Sultran’s City)
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