{"id":2161,"date":"2006-12-30T21:03:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/panorama-of-constantinople\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T02:03:49","slug":"panorama-of-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/panorama-of-constantinople\/","title":{"rendered":"Panorama of Constantinople"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why not “Istanbul”? Because the name Istanbul is really an Arabic derivative of the Greek. If you live near New York City for example and are heading into Manhattan, you don’t say “I am going to New York City.” Instead, you say “I am going to the city<\/em>.” <\/p>\n

Well, the “Istanbul” means the same thing. “Ee steen polee” is the Greek way of saying in the city<\/em> (in this case the “city of Constantine” or Konstanteen-oupolee<\/em> — Constantinople in English). Change the the Greek hard “p” to the Arabic hard “b” and you end up with “ee-stan-bolee” or Istanbul. The Arab speakers in Turkey know this of course. Non-Arabic speakers think the name of Constantinople actually was changed.<\/p>\n

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In any case, the reason for this digression is this link: Turkey Panoramas<\/a><\/p>\n

In August 2006, washingtonpost.com photographer Ben de la Cruz traveled to Turkey to capture some of its rich history and people. Starting in Istanbul — the gateway between Europe and Asia, Ben also stopped in Cappadocia — a region in Anatolia famous for its unusual landscape — before ending his journey along the Mediterranean coast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was in Constantinople about seven years ago. It was a fascinating trip. I was fortunate in that our tour guide on a bus tour we took one day consented to drive to the area of the wall that was breached when the Turks captured the city. You can still get a sense of the grandeur of the place when you visit the older (formerly) Greek sections of the city, which remain abandoned since the Greeks that were forced out early in the last century still lay claim to the property in places. Elsewhere the city has mushroomed. The panoramas on the site give a good idea of the flavor and temper of the city. You can see Hagia Sophia in one of the lower photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why not “Istanbul”? Because the name Istanbul is really an Arabic derivative of the Greek. If you live near New York City for example and are heading into Manhattan, you don’t say “I am going to New York City.” Instead, you say “I am going to the city.” Well, the “Istanbul” means the same thing. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}