Not Constantinople

[wins32767]

I'd like to thank whoever made the Ottoman city names list. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. It was totally unexpected!

[Jon Shafer]

It isn't that inconspicuous is it?

[twilight]

Sorry, I do not understand. What is the problem? I checked the Ottomans List but nothing noticed.

[asleepathewheel]

If you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.

[monkspider]

Constantinople has to be saved up for the Byzantines in the next XP. I agree that the city list is rather odd, Ankara is close to the bottom of the list!

[Minuteman]

Croon along with the Sultan of Soul, the Janissary of Jive, the Eunuch of Munich, the Harem of...well, you get the idea....

Ah-hem...me, me, me...


Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople

Been a long time gone

Old Constantinople's still has Turkish delight

On a moonlight night

Evr'y gal in Constantinople

Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople

So if you've date in Constantinople

She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

Why they changed it, I can't say

(People just liked it better that way)

Take me back to Constantinople

No, you can't go back to Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks'

[Jon Shafer]

*Golf clap*

[Firebird]

[Minuteman]

*Politely tips his fez towards the chirping crickets*

[twilight]

Constantinople has to be saved up for the Byzantines in the next XP. I agree that the city list is rather odd, Ankara is close to the bottom of the list!

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Oh, that you mean. Okay, but for a very long time Istanbul was the capital of the Ottomans. How to solve it?

[Traelin]

Originally posted by twilight
Constantinople has to be saved up for the Byzantines in the next XP. I agree that the city list is rather odd, Ankara is close to the bottom of the list!

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Oh, that you mean. Okay, but for a very long time Istanbul was the capital of the Ottomans. How to solve it?

Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul was not named Istanbul until 1930, although the Ottomans captured it in 1453. Constantinople became the center of the Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire under Constantine. To include the Byzantine Empire would be almost like including the Roman Empire again, since they really were one and the same at certain points in history.

[Bella Hella]

dude, that's nobody's business but the turks.

[Asterothe]

I am pretty sure that the city is named way
before 1930.

The only problem is Uskudar which is an
area in anotolian part of Istanbul is a city .

[twilight]

Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul was not named Istanbul until 1930

Okay, but the city is the same. I only wanted to say, that this is a real problem for other Civs, too. London and Londinium for eample. But you said it already and this comment is completely useless but to say that I am no completely historic fool ;-)))

But the Byzantines is not only Rome again. They were, but in the 7. or 8. centuries there was an Basileos Herakleios, after that the byzantine Empire was a middleaged byzantine Empire, a greek and new one. I think it must be there.

[KaiserIsak]

We have both the greeks and the romans. The byzantines should be far down the line.