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Name of modern Athens[edit]
I'm using this sandbox page to rewrite the "Name" section of Athens, which duplicates a lot of stuff in History of Athens. When I'm ready it will be a dump-in replacement.
Etymology and names[edit]
During the medieval period, the name of the city was rendered once again in the singular as Ἀθήνα. Variant names included Setines, Satine, and Astines, all derivations involving false splitting of prepositional phrases.[1] King Alphonse X of Castile gives the pseudo-etymology 'the one without death/ignorance'.[2][page needed] In Ottoman Turkish, it was called آتينا Ātīnā,[3] and in modern Turkish, it is Atina.
After the establishment of the modern Greek state, and partly due to the conservatism of the written language, Ἀθῆναι [aˈθine] again became the official name of the city and remained so until the abandonment of Katharevousa in the 1970s, when Ἀθήνα, Athína, became the official name.[citation needed] Today, it is often simply called η πρωτεύουσα ī protévousa; 'the capital'.
- ^ Bourne, Edward G. (1887). "The Derivation of Stamboul". American Journal of Philology. 8 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 78–82. doi:10.2307/287478. JSTOR 287478.
- ^ 'General Storia' (Global History)
- ^ Osmanlı Yer Adları, Ankara 2017, s.v. full text Archived 31 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine