Art and design inspiration from around the world – CreativeRoots

• From: muzrek
• Sep 23, 2010

please change this title because our city’s name Ä°stanbul not Constantinople there are turkish people’s country respect please

• From: rod
• Sep 23, 2010

Hi Muzrek

Thanks for all your comments. The reason why Constantinople appears in the title, is because in 1920 when these images where produced Istanbul was called Constantinople. I hope you understand.

• From: Mehmet Okutan
• Oct 17, 2010

Hi rod,
I dont know who told you that in 1920 Istanbul was called Constantinople; but since 1453 this city called Ä°stanbul and this city is not the “city of Constantin”. If you want some details please read :
Islambol (lots of Islam) or Islambul (find Islam) were folk-etymological adaptations of Istanbul created after the Ottoman conquest of 1453 to express the city’s new role as the capital of the Islamic Ottoman empire. It is first attested shortly after the conquest, and its invention was ascribed by some contemporary writers to Sultan Mehmed II himself. Some Ottoman sources of the 17th century, most notably Evliya Çelebi, describe it as the common Turkish name of the time. Between the late 17th and late 18th centuries, it was also in official use. The first use of the word “Islambol” on coinage took place in 1703 (1115AH) during the reign of Sultan Ahmed III. The term Kostantiniyye still appeared, however, into the twentieth century.

REF : Bourne, Edward G. (1887). “The Derivation of Stamboul”. American Journal of Philology (The Johns Hopkins University Press)

• From: rod
• Oct 18, 2010

Hi Mehment
Thanks for the additional information. Reading even deeper into what Wikipedia has got to say, I guess that’s where you also got your info from. I guess I now know why I used Constantinople instead of Istanbul.

“After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the various alternative names besides Ä°stanbul became obsolete in the Turkish language. With the Turkish Postal Service Law of March 28, 1930, the Turkish authorities officially requested foreigners to cease referring to the city with their traditional non-Turkish names (such as Constantinople, Tsarigrad, etc.) and to adopt Istanbul as the sole name also in their own languages.[11] Letters or packages sent to “Constantinople” instead of “Istanbul” were no longer delivered by Turkey’s PTT, which contributed to the eventual worldwide adoption of the new name.”

I’m happy to change the title.

Regards,

Rod

• From: ken carpenter
• Dec 13, 2010

who is the artist and what is known of him? I have three examples of these scenes and am wondering how to dispose of them.

• From: rod
• Dec 13, 2010

Good question Ken. I would also love to know who the Artist is. Anyone???

• From: zeynep
• May 09, 2011

the name of the artist is mitrich..but these are the copies of orijinals…ı am collecting and researching about this artist if anyone has it and consider to sell, i will be interested..thank you..

you cant see the name of constantinople or istanbul in orijinal painti,ngs…these are the copies of it..there are lots of copies of the same painting..

zeynep