This apartment in Istanbul has figures from 3 empires and 1 republic that ruled the city, all being built on top of each other.
r/allThat's like me pulling up a picture of 5th century london next to modern day london and saying "you know london is not london, right?"
The city was called constantinople for thousands of years by ottoman, arab, greek, european and other rulers. Then Turkey decided to change one of the most historic cities names to istanbul for no good reason except "Turkiye".
Horrible analogy.
Hundreds of cities had their names changed throughout history. Move past it.
Well yes, but this is one of those cities that stayed constant for over 2300 years.
I'll go back to my london example, it has been some variation of london for around 2000 years. Imagine the outrage if the British government suddenly decided they wanted it to be called something completely different.
I have no problems with Turkey renaming irrelevant cities that may only be a couple hundred years old and have really only been under ottoman/Turkish rule, but constantinople is literally the centre of a thousand years of european history. Not even the ottomans changed it.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter (never really does) but it's still a shame.
First of all, the name Stamboul/Stambul appears to be in use dating back to the 10th century and it was already known as Istanbul in Turkish even before the conquest of 1453. The city was also known as Stambul in the Balkans.
Imagine the outrage if the British government suddenly decided they wanted it to be called something completely different.
Again, not a very accurate analogy. Not only did the official change not happen out of the blue, but it was also not "for no good reason" as you stated in your previous comment.
Ottoman Empire was abolished and the Republic of Turkey was founded instead. The Arabic script was replaced with the Latin alphabet and the name (along with a large number of other places) was changed as part of the Turkification processes.
Abolishing a failing empire which uses an Arabic script, ending the sultanate and the caliphate and instead declaring a secular republic that uses the Latin alphabet after fighting multiple wars in many fronts is not an easy undertaking. You can't do these things with half measures. It's not like it was changed out of boredom.
It's Istanbul now. Constantinople is a thing of the past. There's no shame in it.