• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    OK, so my history teacher was an even bigger idiot than I thought, because she taught us about Constantinople being in the Asian part of modern day Turkey.

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      2 months ago

      As a matter of technicality, it is. As Constantinople has neighborhoods on both sides of the strait, it’s considered both European and Asian. A city of two continents.