#Konstantinoupoli

[alatismeni-theitsa]

I used to live in Konstantinoupoli, my family had survived every genocide and pogrom until we had to flee after the 2016 coup attempt. Our house was in our family for many generations. Once when i was a kid, i layed under the coffee table and found my mom and her siblings names written there, so i added mine, and so did my siblings.

There is a new priest in our local greek church, and he found my great great grandfathers journal stored somewhere there (it dates 1912-1923), after reading it the priest decided that he wants to return it to my family, in the journal, the priest found the adress and visited the home to find the turkish family that now lived there. The family told them how long they live here, how the came to acquire the house, and that they know that a greek family lived there before them because their son had found greek letters under the table. The priest asked to take a look at them, and saw the names and matched some of them with the ones in the journals ( we are lucky we pass on our first names religiously in the family).

The church the priest belings to, that we once belinged to too, is right next to a synagogue (the place i grew up was amazing all the religious buildings are in one block, so we the jews and the armenians were extremly tight, as the 'others'). The priest spoke to the rabbi about this, and the rabbi from our home and first names remembered the surname the family survives as today and the city we had said we will move in.

Despite us not being pontiacs, the priest talks with our local pontiac community group, hoping that they will help fellow anatolians, and gives the info he has gathered about us. And they found us indeed! We came into contact with the priest that told this whole tail to our grandma, she now has her grandfathers journal where he talks about how he and his family managed to survive the genocide and stay in their land. All my family cant shut up about it. Its been an emotional month for us since we started reading the journal and how it came to our possetion again. My grandma said somehow still managed to scold her middle aged children plus us for ruining 'her table'. Not sure why i tell this, sorry for the long text, i just wanted to keep sharing this story with people, here in mainland there seems to be the idea that all modern anatolians are only distantly related to the refugees, but our community is still very alive and kicking, and pulling this kind of bullshit to keep surviving our legacies.

That's such a great story! 😭 It made my whole night when I read it, having at least one house my refugee family never returned to. It sounds like a fairlytale - for the positive things, like the family names written on the table, how people tried to find you because of this this little thing, and different communities interacting so that you get this journal!

No matter where we are, we are thriving! Our families have survived so much and we are living proof of their endurance! I'm so happy for you, guys!

(Of couuuurse the yaya scolding was inevitable 😂)

#answered #how do i tag this idk but I'll try #greeks of minor asia #and #Greek genocide #pogrom #Anatolian greeks #Konstantinoupoli

[nova-era-gr]

#ελληνικο tumblr #youtube video #ελληνικο ποστ #greek tumblr #youtube #reelsvideo #greek posts #greece #ελληνικο ταμπλρ #reels

[traveltourismnews]

Η FedHATTA στο Ελληνοτουρκικό Φόρουμ της Κωνσταντινούπολης – Στο επίκεντρο η βίζα για τους Τούρκους ταξιδιώτες

https://travel-tourism.news-24.gr/fedhatta-sto-ellinotourkiko-foroum-tis-konstantinoupolis-sto-epikentro-viza-gia/

[orthodoxyrodos]

Άγιος Ιωάννης ο Χρυσόστομος Αρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινούπολης (13 Νοεμβρίου) https://orthodoxy.rodos-island.gr/agios-ioannis-o-chrysostomos-archiepiskopos-konstantinoupolis-13-noemvriou/

[orthodoxiaonline]

Άγιος Μεθόδιος ο ομολογητής Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινούπολης Σταθερή εορτή στις 14 Ιουνίου Βιογραφία   Μεθόδιον φωστῆρα τῆς Ἐκκλησίας, Τὸ τῆς τελευτῆς σβεννύει στυγνὸν νέφος. Ο Άγιος Μεθόδιος καταγόταν από μεγάλη και ευσεβή οικογένεια, μέσα στην οποία ανατράφηκε σύμφωνα με τις εντολές του ορθοδό... https://orthodoxia.online/giorti-simera/giorti-simera-tetarti-14-iouniou-2023-agios-methodios-o-omologitis-patriarchis-konstantinoupolis/?feed_id=38462&_unique_id=648957e99d872

[spoilersgr]

Η Κωνσταντινούπολη, στα τουρκικά Konstantiniyye, λεγόταν έτσι μέχρι το 1923. Η σημερινή ονομασία της πόλης ως «Ιστανμπούλ» είναι μόλις 90 ετών: Μετονομάστηκε επίσημα από το κεμαλικό καθεστώς στις 28 Μαρτίου του 1930

#– #apo #Bombes #dimiourgisoume #i #Istanmpoul #Konstantinoupoli #megaluteri #mia #Suntoma #Tha #ton #xanaginei #Zirinofski #Ελλάδα:

[syiannis]

Στην Πόλη! #AgiaSofia #Konstantinoupoli (at Hagia Sophia)

#konstantinoupoli #agiasofia

[turkeywithemre]

Hagia Sophia - Istanbul /Turkey . 📍For Turkish learners , my page @all4turkish . . . 📸@hamityalcn . . . #hagiasophia #hagiasophiamuseum #hagiasophiamosque #ayasofya #agiasofia #αγιασοφια #konstantinoupoli #exploreturkey (at Hagia Sofia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6lFVnTAlbn/?igshid=r7k1d9lmzidk

#hagiasophia #hagiasophiamuseum #hagiasophiamosque #ayasofya #agiasofia #αγιασοφια #konstantinoupoli #exploreturkey

[angelgmakri]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ΤΣΣΚΑ vs ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟΣ 19/05/2017 Να πω ποιος θα κερδίσει; #olympiacosbc #euroleague2017 #may #konstantinoupoli

#may #konstantinoupoli #euroleague2017 #olympiacosbc

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Nektaria Anastasiadou's blog of Istanbul Greek words/sayings is so wonderful to me and some of them are so funny ('νάτο κεφάλι νάτο μερμέρι', for example)! Do you recognize any of them or are they v specific

This one, eh? As a Macedonian/Thracian living in Macedonia, from a general overview, it... depends! Sometimes I understand 99% of what's said, other times just 30%. It's the words with Turkish/Arabic/Persian roots that I often don't know.

In the example of 'νάτο κεφάλι νάτο μερμέρι' I understood all except what μερμέρι was supposed to mean. Then I saw the "translation" and I realized that μεμέρι is just another way to say μάμαρο, which is "marble" on standard Greek. Still, I don't know what the phrase means, and I've never heard it from anyone I've spoken with. In standard Greek this would be "να το κεφάλι, να το μάρμαρο".

So I'd say the idioms of Istanbul/Konstantinopoli can be quite specific but the idiom has words that also exist in standard Greek. I'd say 1/3 words and phrases also exist in standard Greek (and perhaps only in half of Greece which has more relation to Anatolia). But the words with Turkish/Arabic/Persian roots could be used similarly or in the same way by people on Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

Some of these words we consider "old" (παλιακές), like the words τέντζερις, κιτάπια, κουμάσι, γιαβρί, σεκλέτι, but some still stand! The blog also takes care to note how these words are in standard Greek (the author calls it Central Greek) and it's accurate from what I've seen.

#greek language #idiom #istanbul #konstantinoupoli

[traveltourismnews]

Κωνσταντινούπολη | 25 ευρώ εισιτήριο μόνο στους ξένους τουρίστες στην Αγία Σοφία

https://travel-tourism.news-24.gr/konstantinoupoli-25-evro-eisitirio-mono-stous-xenous-touristes-stin-agia-sofia/

[vakouk]

#konstantinoupolis #moments #moment #istanbul #happy #amazing #turkey #turkey_photo #istiklal (στην τοποθεσία Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQDwGDA2tLhxn4YXoTvW1i0Br3NKgFhVpan7A0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nn31rwiyirb

#konstantinoupolis #moments #moment #istanbul #happy #amazing #turkey #turkey_photo #istiklal

[orthodoxiaonline]

Εκκλησία Κρήτης Ιερά Μητρόπολη Ρεθύμνης και Αυλοποτάμου Ο Σεβασμιώτατος Μητροπολίτης Ρεθύμνης και Αυλοποτάμου κ. Πρόδρομος θα απουσιάσει από την έδρα του. Ο Σεβασμιώτατος Μητροπολίτης Ρεθύμνης και Αυλοποτάμου κ. Πρόδρομος θα απουσιάσει από την έδρα του, από την Παρασκευή, 9η Ιουνίου, έως και τ... https://orthodoxia.online/ekklisia/o-mitropolitis-rethymnis-stin-konstantinoupoli-kai-stin-afstria/?feed_id=37281&_unique_id=6483311f8ee5b

[johngerodimos]

Agia Sofia, Konstantinoupoli

[xday11]

Konstantinoupoli, Agia Sofia #κωνσταντινούπολη #Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων #imperiumromanum #Αγία Σοφία #HEAVYPAINT #τουρκία #ζωγραφική #painting #landscapepainting

#painting #heavypaint #hagia sophia #constantinople #turkey #istanbul

[spoilersgr]

«Άσπροι» έγιναν αρκετοί δρόμοι στην Κωνσταντινούπολη την Τρίτη λόγω της σφοδρής χαλαζόπτωσης που έπληξε την πόλη. Τα βίντεο αποτυπώνουν την ένταση του φαινομένου:   Istanbul hit by heavy rain with hailstones #Turkey pic.twitter.com/tnhqPJWwY1 — RT (@RT_com) September 30, 2020 Εκτός από χαλαζόπτωση σημειώθηκαν και καταρρακτώδεις βροχές που μετέτρεψαν αρκετούς δρόμους σε ποτάμια. Σύμφωνα με τους μετεωρολόγους η κακοκαιρία αναμένεται να συνεχιστεί και σήμερα.

#– #apo #Asprisan #BINTEO #dromoi #i #Konstantinoupoli #leuka #Oi #Sfodri #sta #ti #xalazoptosi