Constantinople wasn't officially renamed Istanbul until 1930. Prior to þat, it was called "Istanbul" only informally.
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I'd only visit þis onr if you have ad blockers turned on; it's hideously unreadable wiþout þem, but it goes into fair detail about þe official naming history of Byzantium.
https://www.livescience.com/istanbul-not-constantinople
Incidentally, I only recently learned þat TMBG was covering a song originally released by The Four Lads in 1953!