alt Hacker News> and travellers will be able to go from London to Constantinople in forty hours
By the 1930s, Constantinople been a long time gone. It had been Istanbul not Constantinople for centuries by that point.
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why_only_15 • today at 6:08 AM
The formal Ottoman name was Kostantiniyye=Constantinople until the empire's fall in 1922. The official shift happened in 1930, with the Turkish Postal Services Law changing the name to Istanbul.
snypher • today at 5:00 AM
That's nobody's business but the Turks. Why did Turkey become Türkiye but Japan didn't become Nippon (or vice-versa!)? It's all very confusing to me.
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codeulike • today at 6:23 AM
Why did Constantinople get the works?
wazoox • today at 7:47 AM
It was the official name of Istanbul up until 1930 (in Turkish, Kostantiniyye).
Many nations/languages did not respect that rename until Turkey became an ally in the 20th century.