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Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way.

I think the Dutch were bought out. :)

I had to say it!

Good Meme!

Lol they did that back when it was still Constantinople XD

(Hopefully that is a picture of a Byzantine soldier on horseback.)

Are you referring to the Crusade army that was excommunicated by the Pope and later sacked Constantinople? I don't know much about it but wasn't it led by Venice?

It was led by several leaders, Frankish and Venetian. The purpose was to put Alexios IV on the throne, who was a Byzantine prince in exile. In return for giving him the Byzantine throne, Alexios IV promised money and men to help in the crusade. He tried to live up to his promises, but that made the Greeks unhappy. He was killed in a coup, and the new emperor didn't want to help the crusader army. So the crusaders attacked the city and plundered it. The Venetians got a part of the city and some parts of the Byzantine empire, so that they had an unbroken chain of ports towards the Black Sea. Baldwin I of Flanders became the Byzantine emperor.

Thanks. It's a troll meme :)

Wth instanbuls in turkey

Inspired by this. Series of great Constantinople memes. I still laugh when I see this one. (not mine)

I see a Greek over here :P

something tells me that would go a little more, explosively, if you know what I mean

Great song, though!

off topic here, anyone remember Malcolm in the Middle?

Yes

That’s nobody’s business but the turks

Hate to start a crusade over it, right?

BEAUTIFUL

Istanbul WAS Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, NOT Constantinople