From: tankut@IASTATE.EDU (Sabri T Atan)
Subject: Re: Turkey-Cyprus-Bosnia-Serbia-Greece (Armenia-Azeris)
Reply-To: tankut@IASTATE.EDU (Sabri T Atan)
Organization: Iowa State University
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In article <1993Apr20.143453.3127@news.uiowa.edu>, mau@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Mau
Napoleon) writes:
> From article <1qvgu5INN2np@lynx.unm.edu>, by osinski@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Marek
Osinski):
> 
> > Well, it did not take long to see how consequent some Greeks are in
> > requesting that Thessaloniki are not called Solun by Bulgarian netters. 
> > So, Napoleon, why do you write about Konstantinople and not Istanbul?
> > 
> > Marek Osinski
> 
> Thessaloniki is called Thessaloniki by its inhabitants for the last 2300
years.
> The city was never called Solun by its inhabitants.
> Instabul was called Konstantinoupolis from 320 AD until about the 1920s.
> That's about 1600 years. There many people alive today who were born in a
city
> called Konstantinoupolis. How many people do you know that were born in a city
> called Solun.
> 
> Napoleon

Are you one of those people who were born when Istanbul was called 
Konstantinopolis? I don't think so! If those people use it because
they are used to do so, then I understand. But open any map
today (except a few that try to be political) you will see that the name 
of the city is printed as Istanbul. So, don't try to give
any arguments to using Konstantinopolis except to cause some
flames, to make some political statement. 


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