Editing Constantinople (section)

=== Modern names of the city ===
[[File:Hippodrome_Constantinople_2007_007.jpg|thumb|left|[[Obelisk of Theodosius]] is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Egyptian King [[Thutmose III]] re-erected in the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople]] by the Roman emperor [[Theodosius I]] in the 4th century AD.]]

The modern Turkish name for the city, ''[[Istanbul|İstanbul]]'', derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] phrase ''eis tin Polin'' ({{lang|grc|εἰς τὴν πόλιν}}), meaning '(in)to the city'.{{sfn|Harris|2017|page=204}}<ref>{{OEtymD|Istanbul}}</ref> This name was used in colloquial speech in [[Turkish language|Turkish]] alongside ''Kostantiniyye'', the more formal adaptation of the original ''Constantinople'', during the period of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century. In 1928, [[Turkish Language Commission|the Turkish alphabet was changed]] from Arabic script to Latin script. After that, as part of the [[Turkification]] movement, Turkey started to urge other countries to use [[Geographical name changes in Turkey|Turkish names for Turkish cities]], instead of other transliterations to Latin script that had been used in Ottoman times and the city came to be known as Istanbul and its variations in most world languages.<ref name="Shawn">Stanford and Ezel Shaw (1977): History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol II, p. 386; Robinson (1965), The First Turkish Republic, p. 298</ref><ref>Tom Burham, ''The Dictionary of Misinformation'', Ballantine, 1977.</ref><ref>Room, Adrian, (1993), ''Place Name changes 1900–1991'', Metuchen, N.J., & London:The Scarecrow Press, Inc., {{ISBN|0-8108-2600-3}} pp. 46, 86.</ref><ref>[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9368294/Istanbul Britannica, Istanbul] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218080707/http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9368294/Istanbul |date=2007-12-18 }}.</ref>

The name ''Constantinople'' is still used by members of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] in the title of one of their most important leaders, the Orthodox [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch]] based in the city, referred to as "His Most Divine All-Holiness the Archbishop of Constantinople New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch". In Greece today, the city is still called ''Konstantinoúpoli(s)'' ({{lang|el|Κωνσταντινούπολις/Κωνσταντινούπολη}}) or simply just "the City" ({{lang|el|Η Πόλη}}).