User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassin's Creed III in 2011?/@comment-85.101.248.101-20110516143920/@comment-4359293-20110919213603

Then you don't know much about the history of your city. It was called Constantinople during the Byzantine reign, named after its founder Constantin I. After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire on 1453, the city was renamed to Istanbul. I love being a smartass. xD