Erdogan is nice, and says he will give Constantinople to Greece as a friendly gift

Erdogan is nice, and says he will give Constantinople to Greece as a friendly gift.

What do you think?

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feels nice living in bizarro earth

constantinople isnt even of import to Greece. Sure it was originally byzantium a greek town but it wasnt a noteworthy greek town. Constantinople was roman, let the turks keep it.

W-What, when?

I think he'd be trying to start a war. He just put 15 million more muslims into the EU, let alone that Istanbul alone would over double the population of Greece.

How the fuck can 14.3 million Turks live in a city twice as big as Athens?

Greece was Roman

roaches tend to live in cramped conditions.

you sound butthurt son

I think Trojan Horse

Athens : 2,929 km2 (3,090,508)
Constantinople : 5,343 km2 (14.3 million)

This is unreal, holy fuck.

If you were to have Constantinople, would you make it your Capital? Or keep Athens

Not a fan of big cities, living in them anyway.

>Canada: 9,984,670 km2 (36,155,487)
>Tokyo Metro: 13, 572 km2 (37,800,000)
Big cities can get pretty insane.

you took our athens and made it shit. more likely that's why.

Let's cut the shit here.
The strip of Turkey west of the Bosphorus is white, secular and isn't populated by baboons.

It doesn't belong in Asia with the rest of those subhumans.

Give the land to Greece and let the new Greek-Turkish border be the bosphorus bridge.

Possibly keep Athens, it is in a fairly good strategic position and it would a hustle to go through a change in capitals.

>Our Athens
Fuck off you fucking roach fantasizing about our rightful clay, your empire is over and if you think that there will be a second one you are making a fool of yourself. Turkey is a bastardized nation and I assure you that in the next century it will no longer exist.

*would be

IT'S A TRAP!

Actually the anatolian side is secular and white whike the european side has the shitty parts.

t. East Anatolian immigrant, like 99.9% of you here

>erdogan is nice

Make Roman Empire Great Again

*Byzantine

They were known as the Roman empire though Byzantine is anachronistic

>Bosphorus is white, secular and isn't populated by baboons.
this nigga was never in shistanbul

They spoke Greek right?

Yeah and they didn't have Rome either, but they still called themselves ROman

Just because Macedonians call themselves that it doesn't mean they're related to Macedonia. Same logic

We wuz Romans N sheeet

>you took our athens and made it shit. more likely that's why.
Athens was ruined during the Smyrna disaster
Two birds one stone well done

Well in this case they were an actual split from the Roman empire, instead of a split off Slav nation bordering Greek Macedonia in desperate need for a national identity so they created one out of thin air based on their neighbor

I mean just because it's a continuation and has the name it doesn't mean it's the same entity. Lincoln's Republican party isn't the same as Trump's Republican party

Yeah but at the time they literally called themselves the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire is a name historians use because it's confusing to call them both the Roman Empire

Not due confusion, Mehmet conquerer called himself Kayser-i Rum (Ceasar) few historian of the era got butthurt and decided to name east Rome Byzantine

Where does the name Byzantium originate?

Original name of Constantinople
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium

Before it was Constantinople, who inhabited Byzantium? Thracians? Greeks?

Constantine placed the seat of the East Roman Empire on Byzantium because of its strategic position renamed to Nova Roma (New Rome)
It was only after his death that the city got the nickname Roma Constantinopolitana and eventually Constantinople
It was a Megarian colony, Megara was a city state in west of Athens opposite of Salamis

>and eventually Constantinople
and eventually *passed in history* as Constantinople
Original names of the times was "The Great City", "The City", "The Queen of Cities" , "The City of Kings" etc
Even Isntanbul derives from the Greek version of the above "Is tin Polin" (To the City)