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![itsrapha83 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1433068154452914177.png) Raphael Barberi📷 [@itsrapha83](/creator/twitter/itsrapha83) on x 35.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-27 12:28:12 UTC

@robertomasymas The argument is that Constantinople was primarily in Europe, so it could not have been a European capital *outside* of Europe

And the Ottoman Empire and Turkey weren’t European countries


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