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Does anything truly get better than moving soldiers around on a little map? (lemmy.world)
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[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

I know I learned about them twenty years ago but I don’t recall anything about either of them anymore, so that’s how I can’t know the difference anyway.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

It helps that They Might Be Giants wrote a song about it. Constantinople was the capital of what we now call "The Byzantine Empire'' (at the time they just called it 'The Roman Empire') Istanbul was the capital of The Ottoman Empire. And as everyone knows. Istanbul was once Constantinople.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Why did Constantinople get the works?

[-] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Nobody knows it but the Turks...

[-] Prinzigor@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

Constantinople was also the capitol of the ottomen empire, the name change came after ww1, when attaturk Formed Turkey

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