Curious, about this, I got sucked into a rabbithole of reading about this background of this etymology. Thanks for the nerdsnipe! :) "THE ETYMOLOGY OF İSTANBU

Curious, about this, I got sucked into a rabbithole of reading about this background of this etymology. Thanks for the nerdsnipe! :) "THE ETYMOLOGY OF İSTANBUL: MAKING OPTIMAL USE OF THE EVIDENCE" https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/item/15924/stachowski_woodhouse_the_etymology_of_istanbul_2015.pdf https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/item/15924/stac... (It disputes the details of the traditional 'to the city' etymology, but in the end proposes deriving from something else with very similar meaning, "στην­ Πόλι" (something maybe like 'sten­ Poli' but there are details of historical pronunciation in the article I didn't read closely) rather than "εἰς­ τὴν ­Πόλιν" [is timˈbolin].)