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What's even similar about those two?
Istanbul was once Constantinople
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
Ottomans tried calling themselves Rome at some point.
Also about two months ago, I read an old French essay where author says something along the lines of "even the emperor of constantinople fell weak with the passage of time," and I went MAD trying to figure out if they mean the sick man of europe or the dead.
Geographically based around modern day Türkiye?
She's dry and so transactional realpolitik and everyone gets a turn, most of them really into genocide?