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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 months agoIf I ever go to Istanbul, I’ll be telling people I visited Constantinople.
minus-squarelemmyknow@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoWell, even old New York was once New Amsterdam, so…
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agothe guy with the captain’s hat thought it looked more like York.
minus-squarehamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThat this thread became a mixture of They Might Be Giants and Mitchell & Webb is hilarious and i’m here for it.
minus-squarelemmyknow@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoHonestly, idk. I guess people just liked it better that way
minus-squareDankOfAmerica@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoSupposedly, the English took it from the Dutch. The English king gave it to his brother who was the Duke of York and renamed it in his honor.
If I ever go to Istanbul, I’ll be telling people I visited Constantinople.
Byzantium, please!
Fuck that Carigrad or Tsargrad
Lygos or gtfo
Well, even old New York was once New Amsterdam, so…
Why’d they change it?
the guy with the captain’s hat thought it looked more like York.
That this thread became a mixture of They Might Be Giants and Mitchell & Webb is hilarious and i’m here for it.
Honestly, idk. I guess people just liked it better that way
I can’t say
Supposedly, the English took it from the Dutch. The English king gave it to his brother who was the Duke of York and renamed it in his honor.