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Istanbul is a corruption of "eis ten Polis", medieval Greek for "to/in the City", which is how the Greek Christian locals referred to it for centuries. The formal name until the 1930s was Konstantiniyye (Constantinople). Which ought to provide hints whose heritage they are.











Umarım sn @ismailsabah kendisinin de işaret ettiği üzere bu müthiş seriye 27. Alay ile devam eder. Ayrıca kitapta öne sürdüğü Alay sancağının replikasının yapılıp sergilenmesi mutlaka hayata gecirilmesi gereken bir fikir...







At St. Marks’s Basilica in Venice there is a porphyry statue of the Four Tetrarchs looted from Constantinople in 1204, surrounded by marble spolia. There is a white fragment on the bottom right of the purple statue, a piece of which was found in Istanbul in the 20th century!


















