I’m going to Constantinople, that shit better not be Istanbul

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You know I know I reblogged this already with a joke but—

Re the tags “transphobic parents visiting their out adult children,” it’s even MORE appropriate because we do actually know why Istanbul is no longer Constantinople. It’s because the name came from Constantine, a Roman emperor who converted to Christianity in the third century and immediately decided it was the state religion for the entire Holy Roman Empire—hence the name of that.

Thing is, he was a complete warmonger and also Türkiye hasn’t had a Christian majority in over five hundred years. The predominant religion in Türkiye is Islam—90% of voting-age people in Türkiye are Sunni Muslim—and in the third century when Constantine pulled his shit, most of the people there were pagans. Instanbul was renamed to remove the name of a force that was oppressive and no longer appropriate.

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The Eastern Roman Empire is not the Holy Roman Empire. Objectively, the HRE was made in retaliation to the ERE depending on when you want to consider it's formation. In either case, it was named for a distinction from the Empire of Constantinople.

Constantine did not make Christianity the state religion. He only legalised it. He also did not officially convert until his death bed (which admittedly probably has more to do with absolution of all sin at baptism than it does his actual beliefs but who's to say) so take that as you will. He was no more a warmonger than any other emperor at the time. The high "pagan" numbers is probably because Christianity was a minority and recently persecuted faith. And also the official state religion was still that of the Romans pantheon. Also he originally named it New Rome. It took a minute for him to rename it again. On a side note, he's from the fourth century.

The lack of Christian population may or may not be because of the three days of slaughter following Constantinople'e fall. Or perhaps the population exchanges where the remaining Christian subjects were exchanged for Muslim. Or, perhaps, even, the genocide by the Ottoman Empire and the treatment of non-Muslim subjects during its ~300 year rule of the area.

If one were to open any history book and look up Byzantine Empire/Eastern Roman Empire in the 15th century, prior to the fall of Constantinople, they would learn it was an Empire in name only and was steadily declining. There was nothing oppressive about it. It was barely holding on.

And I don't know how to break this to you, but Istanbul is just Constantinople* in a Turkish accent.

*It's the Turkish form of the colloquial Greek meaning "to the city," which is what majority of the Greek speaking population called it.

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