#istanbul not costantinople

[icky-flix]

Istanbul (not costantinople) had been written to set them apart from the residents, who wrote costantinople to prove their hellish origin

I can't explain it but The Residents feels like an alternate version of They Might Be Giants from the hell dimension.

[27-umbrellas]

I have listened to Istanbul (not Constantinople) so many times today all I can hear is five beating some ass to That’s Nobody’s Business But The Turks!

[sane-human]

you means Constantinople?.

I mean XD

Here are some fun things I found about the name:

"After Byzantion, when the city was under Roman rule, it was re-named by Roman emperor Septimus Severus as Augusta Antonina. When the seat of the empire moved to the city in AD 330, it was labelled Secunda Roma (Second Rome). It was called Nova Roma (new Rome in Latin) starting from the fifth century, and its citizens, the Romaios. The name, however, did not stick.

Bizantion was a Thracian name, while in Ottoman papers, the Arabic and Armenian forms were also Byzantia, Byzandia, Buzantiye, Puzanta, Buzantis…

Constantinopolis was the prevalent name used throughout Roman and Byzantine times, and the West used it for much longer than that, even when the city was under Ottoman rule (from AD 1453).

Famously, the Ottoman Empire used the variant of Konstantiniyye until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “until the Turkish Post Office officially changed the name in 1930 ... the city continued to bear the millenary name of Constantinople.”

Ottoman sultans did not get stuck on names - there was, though, one exception. “Sultan Mustafa the Third used ‘the city of Islam’ Islambol in his imperial writings.” The root of “Istanbul” is ‘stinpolis’ in Greek, and it means a form of the phrase “to the city”.

The city - in reference - is the city within city walls. "

Lots of names :D

(from this article)

[palatial-monstrosity]

How the fuck I am supposed to focus on work when all I can think of is that I will never know what it feels for a viking to see Costantinople and be part of the varangian guard.

[27-umbrellas]

If you don’t think I have

Lost my soul

To Istanbul (not Constantinople) then you are dead wrong friendo

the umbrella academy soundtrack fucking owns me

[lord-bajromi]

[historyontheorientexpress]

Kazlıçeşmeye adını veren 16. yy çeşmesi. 1915 basımı Constantinople kitabındaki fotoğrafta, çalınmış olan 8. yy.a ait kaz rölyefi görülüyor.

[ramzoozi]

Street market, Istanbul - Turkey 🇹🇷 #turkey #istanbul #streetphotography #fruit #roamtheplanet #awakemysoul #unlimited #photography #costantinople #nature #potd #beautiful #instacrew #instagram #travel #ig_travel #blogger #turkia #turkish #turkishfood #ibnbatuta #menwhotravel #guyswhotravel (at Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvAUkRYg2f7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ew7vs6pyg9yc

[procrasimnation]

Fascinating that Trump, the son of a Scottish immigrant, appears to think that “England” is the older way of referring to “the United Kingdom” (as per Istanbul / Costantinople etc).

[panipolyglot]

07012017 |¦¦¦| Byzantine Civilization

Map of languages presence in the Roman Empire in II° century AD

Expansion of the city of Constantinople between II° and V° century AD

[sass-is-my-x]

Istanbul was named something else before it was Costantinople. Idr what it was.

I feel like we don’t really talk about the fact that if we were to interact with an alien race it would take forever to sync up languages and names for all the shit in the universe, like for example Oumuamua, the object that came into our solar system this summer (ish time), aliens would be like “oh you encountered azaxclt also!” and we’d be like “what is that”. Like, there’s so much stuff that we’ve named and literally everybody is gonna have different names for that stuff, how are we gonna decide what they should all be called? And also just like, simple stuff, like stars and the sun. We don’t even have a name for our sun wtf

For instance we’d be on another planet and it’d be like

Human: oh wow your sun is so giant how do you not burn to death

Habitant: what is a sun

Human: its the star you orbit

Habitant: we named our star that we orbit celophe

Human: we call ours the sun. Also we call yours g8xx442

Habitant: wtf

And this is just assuming that we communicate in a way that can be translatable

[cryptofeedzposts]

Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,200,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones.

Please upgrade your node before Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block times.

Ethernodes.org has kindly provided Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer located at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has provided a countdown timer located at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You can monitor the network upgrade in real time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/ (it will be updated shortly before the fork).

Muir Glacier is the name given to this network upgrade. Previous network upgrades have been given other names such as Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.

If you use an exchange (such as Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), a web wallet service (such as Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a mobile wallet service (such as Coinbase Wallet, Status.im, or Trust Wallet), or a hardware wallet (such as Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you do not need to do anything unless you are informed to take additional steps by your exchange or wallet service.

Download the latest version of your Ethereum client:

NOTE: Harmony (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated client and will not be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet compatible Ethereum client written in Java.

The Ethereum Cat Herders have put together a blog post which outlines why we are upgrading the network and what changes are going into the upgrade. You can find that blog post here.

A big thanks to the Ethereum community and to all Ethereum developers across all clients and platforms who came together to provide input, thoughts, and contribution.

DISCLAIMER: This is an emergent and evolving highly technical space. If you choose to implement the recommendations in this post and continue to participate, you should make sure you understand how it impacts you. You should understand that there are risks involved including but not limited to risks like unexpected bugs. By choosing to implement these recommendations, you alone assume the risks of the consequences. This post and recommendations are not a sale of any kind and do not create any warranties of any kind including but not limited to any relating to the Ethereum network or the Ethereum clients referred to herein.

[shikkaku]

now it’s istanbul not costantinople

[sane-human]

Istanbul day 1 

I’ve returned home ! My legs are absolutely destroyed by walking but it was so very fun! I‘ve taken more then 200 photos in the days I was in Istanbul ,but I‘ve the best ones to show some of the best places I saw in the travel!

The first thing I saw was the Sultanahmet Square!

During the Byzantine Empire it was an Ippodromo, horse racing circus!

Örme Dikilitaş (Column of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) It used to have metal decorations but the crusades looted it.

The Serpent column ! It is part of an antient Greek Sacrificial tripod , originally in Delphi and relocated by Costantine the Great in 324!

It was built to commemorate the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the battle of Plataea (479 BC).

The Obelisk of Theodosius , that was erected during the 18th Dynasty by Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC), then transported to Costantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.

(it’s is 2/3 of it’s original height as it was cut )

…on the sides there are writings done in both Latin:

"Formerly [I was] reluctant to obey peaceful masters, and ordered to carry the palm [of victory] for tyrants now vanquished and forgotten. [But] all things yield to Theodosius and to his eternal offspring. So too was I prevailed over and tamed in three times ten days, raised towards the skies under governor Proculus.""

And ancient Greek!

"This column with four sides which lay on the earth, only the emperor Theodosius dared to lift again its burden; Proclos was invited to execute his order; and this great column stood up in 32 days"

Then there was a German Fountain!

It was dedicated to the second visitor the Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1898 and to represent Turkish and German friendship!

Then I went to the Grand Bazaar! This is Gate 1 where the Ottoman coat of Arms can be seen, It was full of shops of all kinds !

Ceramics!

Old things of all kinds! (Instagram: minyaturantika)

And Lamps! and all kinds of shiny colorful things!

After that I went to Out and found an other column , Column of Constantine!

In 330 AD it was Remouved from the temple of Apollo in Rome and erected in the Forum of Costantine by Costantine.

In origin At the top ther was the statue of Apollo saluting the sun , but Constantine ordered to replace it with a statue of himself , then later on it was changed by other emperors with their own statues as well.

The column was struck by lightning in 1081 and destroyed it , Alexios Comnenus I replaced the column with a pedestal and a big cross on the top , but said cross was removed by the Ottomans when they conquered the city in 1453.

After the conquest it was renovated for the first time by Selim I after the 1470s!

Later the Colum was severely damaged by a fire , and so Sultan Mustafa II (1695-1704) ordered to put additional walls under the column and to put rings or iron to reinforce it! From that day on it has been called Cemberlitas(column with rings)

There is also a myth that say some belongings of Jesus are buried under the column

After this I went to the Basilica Cistern!It was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I!

All the columns used where taken from Ancient Greek and pagan temples to reused them, as Christianity became the main religion and didn’t allow to worship the old gods.

(Some of the columns had writings on them, they are the names of the ones that build the colum , they would write their name on it to then get paid)

Returning to the fact that the Byzantine Empire was Christian, in the back of the cistern there is two faces of unknown origin depicting Medusa! They were up in the back facing away and down and or by the side to not get seen.

To finish I went on a boat in the night to look at the coast of the Bosphorus! The stretch of water that separates the Europe and Asia, and separates Turkey by separating Anatolia from Thrace!

And that was it for the first day I went there! I go eat dinner and post some other photos , I also plan on doing a thing with Turkey and Italy exploring the Archeological Museum and Science museum I went to, because they were some of the coolest museums I‘ve ever seen!