"Why Istanbul should be called Catstantinople"

[whatthehey]

15. Silly trivia. It was not officially named Constantinople, nor Greek.

And nope it wasn't Byzantium either (this was a fishing village that made way for the new city, and only applied to the empire by historians centuries after it fell in 1453).

The entire millennium long history of the "Byzantine" Empire centered on "Constantinople" was steered by people who called themselves Romans (well, Romeoi really) in a city built and named as Nova Roma. The Eastern Roman empire survived when the Western Roman empire fell and was populated by people who spoke Greek as a lingua franca (pun there) but never considered themselves "Greeks".

Maybe a few centuries after the collapse of western capitalism, which is imminent according to DU, historians will speak of a financial empire ruled from a megalopolis called "the Big Apple" and named "Wallstreet".
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