So Rome is now Istanbul?
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Nah, Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople
It's been a long time gone: Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Holy crap, I actually think I understand some of what happened here. It sounds like someone learned about the Byzantine Empire and got very confused.
The western half of the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, but the eastern half didn't collapse until the 15th century. The surviving eastern half has been retroactively named the Byzantine Empire, but when it existed was just called the Roman Empire or the Empire of the Greeks, depending on the year and where you were at. The eastern capital (and Rome had two for a while for administrative purposes, along with two emperors) was Constantinople and it was specifically designed and advertised as a second Rome to justify having a capital there.
I think this guy learned about the Byzantine Empire / Eastern Roman Empire, but not how it relates to the Western Roman Empire. Throw in some assumptions, some logical fallacies, a poor understanding of linguistics and transliteration, and then serve with some conspiratorial thinking on the side and you get the above post.
It's the kingdom of Comodia duh.
Well this is a new one for me. Ancient Rome denial?
Why even make the whole Roman empire up? It's like the flat Earth shit. What's the point in hiding this? There's just no logic to those conspiracy bullshit.
It's not about the information itself, it's about getting the people who are dumb enough to believe this to question all of their education.
"If they were wrong about this what else were they wrong about?"
Whoever started this little 'rumor' is heavily suspect.
Definitely new for me too, but there is no bottom to the crazy.
Well, the Romans were fakes though. Bunch of knock-off, budget Etruscans. Couldn't even come up with their own pantheon and instead just copied it from the Greeks. 😋
and instead just copied ~~it~~ everything from the Greeks.
Be Greek
Get conquered by Romans
They're huge weebs for your culture, steal everything
Adapt to theirs as well, create an unstoppable military and economic machine
Call yourselves Romans now
West Rome collapses, your part of the Empire lasts another thousand years
"They weren't really Roman"
"So... you're just neo Greeks?"
"No no, we're equally obsessed with building roads."