Istanbul in European Turkey has been known by many names. Which one of these four names has never been used for this city?

Tsargrad (or Tsarigrad as an alternative Latin transliteration of the Cyrillic) is a Slavic name for the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the "Byzantine Empire". Tsarigrad / Tsargrad combines the Slavonic words tsar for "Caesar / Emperor" and grad for "city", it stood for "the City of the Caesar". Likewise "Constantinople" meant the city of Emperor (Caesar) Constantine the Great. The ancient name for the city was Byzantium; the present-day name is Istanbul. Iskenderun is a city far away in the Asian part of Turkey.

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Rafi Manory

This is a deliberately misleading question, because Tsarigrad is Russian for "City of the Czar" and the Czar is the Russian Tzar.

spearballot

mdbeninati, Sue Nixon, Seriously? Maybe just a tiny bit of research if you don't have the knowledge before you comment.

JRW

Andrew McFee, yes, but it's nobody's business except the Turks!

Char

Char, or Russia other than well know History around the globe.

Char

Rafi Manory, I agree

Char

Most people are not into the history of Turkey including myself so if course I missed it

Irene Townsend

Tsargrad without the letter 'i ' is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire.