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Cvetin
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Skopje, FYROM
Apr 2002
time: 05:23
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Originally posted by LDiCesare
Yes, indeed Constantinople wasn't renamed Istanbul by the Turks when they conquered it, but only after the fall of the Ottoman empire, when Attaturk decided to rip it from its capital status and move the capital to Ankara. |
This just not true! Istanbul was known as, well, Istanbul, for centuries. My place (former ottoman province of Macedonia) it was called Stambol, short from Istanbul, since like forever. It was also called Carigrad (Cars (tzars) city). When I capture it in Civ, I always rename it Carigrad
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