Jump to content

Talk:Constantinople

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former good articleConstantinople was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
On this day...Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 2, 2006Good article reassessmentDelisted
November 10, 2019Peer reviewNot reviewed
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 11, 2004, May 11, 2005, May 11, 2006, May 11, 2011, and May 11, 2014.
Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of September 17, 2005.
Current status: Delisted good article

Introductory sentenece

[edit]

Shoulded the first sentence define what Constantiople was, not what it became. I think that the part "Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire..." should be somtheling like "Constantinople (see other names) was a city, that became the capital of the Roman Empire..." AT44 (talk) 10:23, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Separate article for Istanbul and Constantinople

[edit]

So I have noticed a lot of old byzantine cities that got renamed have separate articles, Istanbul and Constantinople in this case and one for Edessa and Urfa.

Why is this ? if the city was renamed/conquered in other places it doesn't get a new article. The article on Gdańsk for example is the modern name of the city. Any articles referencing danzig are about specific political entities, like "the free city of Danzig" article. Why is this different ? Shouldn't continuously inhabited cities have single articles regardless of name changes ? Jaynorg (talk) 10:56, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on the article and the sources, there is no overarching standard. Here are other examples where earlier periods of a settlement have different articles:
Remsense 11:22, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]