Patrick Andries a Ãcrit :
So the change is more like Beijing -> Peking than Berlin -> Kitchener.
Without a political change Constantinople would not have changed name in a matter of days (at least as far as the officials were concerned). In any case, it is not a transliteration problem (Beijing --> PÃkin).
[PA] I wrote this a bit too fast this morning (first message !). I believe the origin of Istanbul is a bit too obscure to decide whether it is due to a transcription or a complete name change. Just to confuse things further Konstantaniye was apparently used by the Turkish administration and a Greek form Istimboli is attested in the XIVth century.
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