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Old 08-18-2014, 05:14 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by desertblues View Post
Constantinople was called Istanbul from 1923 on, so that doesn't fit.
desertblues, if you want to look here

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambul...ung_des_Namens

I remembered it like you, but the article in the German wikipedia about Istanbul claims that this name was already used in the 16th century.
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