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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoIf I ever go to Istanbul, I’ll be telling people I visited Constantinople.
minus-squarelemmyknow@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoWell, even old New York was once New Amsterdam, so…
minus-squarelemmyknow@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoHonestly, idk. I guess people just liked it better that way
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agothe guy with the captain’s hat thought it looked more like York.
minus-squarehamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 hours agoThat this thread became a mixture of They Might Be Giants and Mitchell & Webb is hilarious and i’m here for it.
minus-squareDankOfAmerica@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day 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?
Honestly, idk. I guess people just liked it better that way
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.
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.