"Language: Same old city, brand new name
William Safire The New York Times
WASHINGTON 'Istanbul was Constantinople," went the Kennedy-Simon song for which the Four Lads were awarded a gold record in 1953, "now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople." Traditionalists in that beautiful city on the Bosporus could not really object to the change of name, made by the Turkish government in 1930, because the city's original name of Byzantium was changed to Constantinople in the year 330 in honor of the emperor Constantine."
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