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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (386056)5/23/2008 8:52:15 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1577060
 
You said ...Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to CONSTANTINOPLE... I doubt the man in the street in CONSTANTINOPLE spoke Greek....since he was living in Turkey.

So why did you call Roman era Constantinople Turkey?

Oh hell! Because most people wouldn't know what I was talking about if I brought up Anatolia or some of the other names Turkey has been called over its history.

It wasn't Turkey during the days of the Roman empire. There were no Turks there or anywhere in Anatolia at the time. And yes, the man in the street in Constantinople at the time did speak Greek. This was true of all of western Anatolia.

Yes, I know that but they weren't necessarily Greeks.

In the first century, the Apostle Paul crisscrossed western Anatolia and left a record of letters written to the churches he founded there .... all written in koine (or common) Greek.

I've said before that Greek was used particularly by the upper/educated classes.
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