It's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Why is it Istanbul, not Constantinople?
Why did Constantoniple get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks!
I jest. Constantinople means "City of Constantine," after the Roman Emperor who turned the already existing Greek trade city of Byzantium into the seat of the Roman Empire, it's consecration being held on 11May330. On 29May1453, the Ottomans took the city and subsequently renamed it Istanbul.