@desertpreacher0 It's so funny how every southern European and Middle Eastern country has some version of the "we were whiter until x group came and made us brown" myth even though we live in the age of modern genetics and the internet and all the evidence to the contrary is freely available
@callmgodd@ThatchEffendi The West has historically been very hostile to contemporary Greeks and Greek-speakers while appropriating its older history as "the beginning of the West." Not the rosy picture you seem to have in your head.
@CamkertenSemih@ThatchEffendi Anatolia was not very diverse in Late Antiquity/early Medieval period. The last Paleo-Anatolian language was Isaurian which died around that time. Most homogenization efforts involved Eastern Rome forcibly moving outside groups (like Slavs) to western or central Anatolia and-
@avzaagzonunaada@ThatchEffendi I don't think @ThatchEffendi was arguing that all of them were similar to Greek, just Phrygian which if you look at its limited attestation definitely seems very close to Greek
@DIAS 'But ancient Greece was never exclusively “Western.”'
Ancient Greece was never "western" at all as that concept didn't exist at the time. If we had to categorize it, it makes more sense to associate it with Egypt, Asia Minor, Phoenica, and Syria.
@snurosnare@_tootos *Konstantinoúpoli
Konstantinou is the genitive form of Konstantinos, basically meaning "Constantine's"
Poli instead of Polis because modern Greek feminine -ις nouns were simplified to -η.
Constantinopolis is the Latin form, Konstantinoupoli(s) has always been the correct Greek