What year did the name change of Constantinople to Istanbul in Turkey?
2007-05-15 09:29:26 · 8 answers · asked by moderngarbage 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Unofficially, since the 10th century. Officially, since 1928.
"Kostantiniyye (Arabic القسطنطينية, al-Qusṭanṭiniyah, Ottoman Turkish قسطنطينيه Kostantiniyye) is the name by which the city came to be known in the Islamic world. It is an Arabic calqued form of Constantinople, with an Arabic ending meaning 'place of' instead of the Greek element -polis. After the Ottoman conquest of 1453, it was used as the most formal official name in Ottoman Turkish, and remained in use throughout most of the time up to the fall of the empire in 1923. "
"The modern Turkish name İstanbul (IPA: [istambul] or colloquial [ɨstanbul]) is attested (in a range of different variants) since the 10th century, at first in Armenian and Arabic and then in Turkish sources."
"İstanbul was the common name for the city in normal speech in Turkish even since before the conquest of 1453, but in official use by the Ottoman authorities, other names such as Kostantiniyye were preferred in certain contexts. Thus, Kostantiniyye was used on coinage up to the late 17th and then again in the 19th century."
"After the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, the various alternative names besides İstanbul became obsolete in Turkish. In an edict of 1930-03-28, the Turkish authorities officially requested foreigners to cease referring to the city with their traditional non-Turkish names (such as Constantinople) and to adopt İstanbul as the sole name also in the foreign languages."
"Names of Istanbul" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Istanbul
2007-05-15 09:53:49 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Constantinople was given the Turkish name of Istanbul in 1930 as part of Ataturk's (Mustafa Kemal) national reforms.
2007-05-15 09:37:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its been called Istanbul since 1453.
2007-05-16 05:52:23 · answer #3 · answered by :] 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was actually named Istanbul in 1923
2016-03-18 23:58:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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In short, yes. It had been referred to as Istanbul for many years before the official name change (in 1930).
2016-04-03 03:45:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name was given in 1930 as part of reforms within the Turkish nation.
2007-05-15 09:45:22 · answer #6 · answered by Rcj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1453 , Sultan Mehmed II
2007-05-15 09:48:07 · answer #7 · answered by lorem_ipsum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was 1453 after the Turks defeated the Byzantines.
2007-05-15 09:35:42 · answer #8 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the band They Might Be Giants: "That's nobody's business but the Turks'."
2007-05-15 09:57:58 · answer #9 · answered by Reba 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋