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Hagia Sophia and Istanbul needs to be called Constantinople
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:36 pm
The minarets need to be removed, the building is perfect and doesn’t need those spikes added on the corners. I can’t imagine what it would be like to walk into such a space in the 500s and see something so incredible.
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The Hagia Sophia construction consists of mostly masonry. The structure is composed of brick and mortar joints that are 1.5 times the width of the bricks. The mortar joints are composed of a combination of sand and minute ceramic pieces displaced very evenly throughout the mortar joints. This combination of sand and ceramic pieces could be considered to be the equivalent of modern concrete at the time.[3]
And also Constantinople sounds so much better.
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The Hagia Sophia construction consists of mostly masonry. The structure is composed of brick and mortar joints that are 1.5 times the width of the bricks. The mortar joints are composed of a combination of sand and minute ceramic pieces displaced very evenly throughout the mortar joints. This combination of sand and ceramic pieces could be considered to be the equivalent of modern concrete at the time.[3]
And also Constantinople sounds so much better.
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 10:51 pm
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Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
Getting the achievement to climb that thing in 10 seconds in Assassin's creed was really frustrating.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
I’ll add this to my list of things I could not give a frick about. I’ll also add it to the list of places in countries I’ll never go to because the people are batshit insane. It’s up there with Egypt.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:44 pm to DavidTheGnome
This is nobody’s business but the Turks.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:50 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:
Instanbul needs to be called Constantinople
To the victor go the spoils.
Istanbul it stands.
This post was edited on 4/21/19 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:51 pm to fightin tigers
Thanks for the catch, edited. 
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:59 pm to fightin tigers
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To the victor go the spoils. Istanbul it stands.
Yet we reverted mt mckinley back to Denali
Posted on 4/21/19 at 10:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
You fricking suck
Posted on 4/21/19 at 11:15 pm to cubsfan5150
About what? Wtf is wrong with a thread about Hagia Sophia? Some of y’all can’t just enjoy a damned thread (or not click on it). Damn
Posted on 4/21/19 at 11:17 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:I admit she's gotten old, but let's not call her names
Wtf is wrong with a thread about Hagia Sophia?
Posted on 4/21/19 at 11:21 pm to Kafka
frick Islam and those evil mother frickers.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 11:32 pm to Cosmo
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Yet we reverted mt mckinley back to Denali
The natives won the political fight.
Posted on 4/21/19 at 11:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
Why Constantinople and not Byzantion?
Posted on 4/21/19 at 11:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Istanbul needs to be called Constantinople
Only if you pronounce it like the Greeks: Constantinopoli
Posted on 4/22/19 at 12:04 am to BigDropper
And spell it Konstantinoúpolis
Posted on 4/22/19 at 12:34 am to BigDropper
And also realize that Istanbul is a Turkish translation for the Greek popular name for the city, Stambuli or Stamboul.
Had the city been called Constantinople by the people who lived there, in a colloquial sense (as the official name was still Kostantiniyye into the 19th century), I don't think the Turks would have changed the name. Or without Turkish nationalistic fervor.
Had the city been called Constantinople by the people who lived there, in a colloquial sense (as the official name was still Kostantiniyye into the 19th century), I don't think the Turks would have changed the name. Or without Turkish nationalistic fervor.
Posted on 4/22/19 at 12:43 am to Joshjrn
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Why Constantinople and not Byzantion?
frick it. Let’s just call it Lygos.
Posted on 4/22/19 at 12:46 am to DavidTheGnome
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The minarets need to be removed, the building is perfect and doesn’t need those spikes added on the corners.
Odd melt.
Posted on 4/22/19 at 12:46 am to DavidTheGnome
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Constantinople sounds so much better.
Can’t argue with that. I’m team Constantinople
Posted on 4/22/19 at 1:11 am to DavidTheGnome
I’ve always wanted to visit Hagia Sophia but my pussy wife is too afraid to travel there
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