re turkey cyprus bosnia serbia greece armenia azeris in article apr news uiowa edu mau herky cs uiowa edu mau napoleon writes from article qvgu inn np lynx unm edu by osinski chtm eece unm edu marek osinski well it did not take long to see how consequent some greeks are in requesting that thessaloniki are not called solun by bulgarian netters so napoleon why do you write about konstantinople and not istanbul marek osinski thessaloniki is called thessaloniki by its inhabitants for the last years the city was never called solun by its inhabitants instabul was called konstantinoupolis from ad until about the s that s about years there many people alive today who were born in a city called konstantinoupolis how many people do you know that were born in a city called solun napoleon are you one of those people who were born when istanbul was called konstantinopolis i don t think so if those people use it because they are used to do so then i understand but open any map today except a few that try to be political you will see that the name of the city is printed as istanbul so don t try to give any arguments to using konstantinopolis except to cause some flames to make some political statement tankut atan tankut iastate edu achtung baby
