St George would not have referred to it as Türkiye, as the Turks hadn’t rocked up at that point. He would have called it Anatolia. Once again demonstrating how stupid this “gotcha” is
mylittlecrusader on
Turkey? He would tell Greece, or Rome but not turkey.
Cheeseconsumer08 on
Anatolia was Greek at the time of St. George (3rd Century AD) while the Turks arrived in roughly the 11th century AD, St. George was most likely ethnically Greek and would have likely spoken Greek and would have likely considered himself to be Greek and would likely have had no concept of what a Turk or Turkey would be as Turkic people would not arrive in that part of the world for another 800 or so years
HistorianEntire311 on
De que hablas en ese tiempo los turcos aún no llegaron a anatolia, diría griego o romano, dios como odio estos memes que hace la gente solo para burlarse de gente que odia
ThePrimalEarth7734 on
He was a Greek Anatolian citizen of the Roman Empire. Had he been born 700 years later he would’ve been fighting for the komnenoi to keep the Turks out of Anatolia.
ColdFusion363 on
Imagine a second coming of Jesus into America.
I can see it now.
Fox News: THIS JUST IN! BROWN SKIN SOCIALIST HIPPIE JEWISH MAN WHO DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH HAS BEEN ARRESTED BY ICE!!!
Old_old_lie on
Turkey? That’s a funny way of spelling anatolia?
Vasile187 on
turkey, which didnt exist then.
Even Cappadocia is a greek region.
pimasecede on
The weird fantasy people have with the idea that anyone in England actually cares that St George wasn’t English goes on.
Does Spain have the same thing around St. James? YoU CaLl hER oUR LaDy of GuaDaluPe but she was actually from NAZARETH; triggered yet, Mexican gammons? So sick of this continuity remain bullshit.
Also btw, St George wasn’t from Turkey, nothing resembling Turkey existed until like a thousand years after he died.
CCyoboi on
… because everyone has always lived exactly where they do now untill 1492
gp145 on
There’s a fella there with a saltire…
krootroots on
He would say ANATOLIA, not Turkey.
Nerdenator on
Luv me kabob, luv me Ingerlund flag, ‘ate Tuhhks (no’ racial, jus’ dun’ loike ‘em), end of
Spoons4Forks on
The Turks invaded Anatolia from Central Asia and gradually ethnically cleansed the Greeks who had lived there for thousands of years.
BigMoney69x on
That image is pure and complete propaganda. One, St George is a Saint of the 3rd Century. Meaning that back then Britannia and Anatollia where part of the Roman Empire so it was basically all one Empire. The ethnicity of the people of Anatollia where Greeks not Turks which were still living in the Stepps in Central Asia. But that’s not the point. Whoever lying propagandist who made this image just wanted to virtue signal about how good of a person they are. Said person has no clue of history and represents a lot of people who just go with vibes.
ImpressiveGift9921 on
He wasn’t originally our patron saint anyway.
JoeBiv on
A Turk wrote this hahaha
Estarfigam on
They would say the same to Jesus
Noa_Skyrider on
Those countries are only a bit less modern than Türkiye being Turkey’s exonym, lol.
AndreasDasos on
Yeah this chestnut again.
He would never have said Turkey, let alone Türkiye.
1. It wasn’t Turkish until several centuries later when the Turks invaded from the east. Surely you know this.
2. This is in English, and the English is ‘Turkey’. English is a language, not some ISO standard, and that like any language is determined by its speech community, not because Erdoğan decided that the name we’ve used for centuries isn’t good enough. It’s not like they call it ‘England’ instead of İngiltere. Only officials there and try-hards online would say this.
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St George would not have referred to it as Türkiye, as the Turks hadn’t rocked up at that point. He would have called it Anatolia. Once again demonstrating how stupid this “gotcha” is
Turkey? He would tell Greece, or Rome but not turkey.
Anatolia was Greek at the time of St. George (3rd Century AD) while the Turks arrived in roughly the 11th century AD, St. George was most likely ethnically Greek and would have likely spoken Greek and would have likely considered himself to be Greek and would likely have had no concept of what a Turk or Turkey would be as Turkic people would not arrive in that part of the world for another 800 or so years
De que hablas en ese tiempo los turcos aún no llegaron a anatolia, diría griego o romano, dios como odio estos memes que hace la gente solo para burlarse de gente que odia
He was a Greek Anatolian citizen of the Roman Empire. Had he been born 700 years later he would’ve been fighting for the komnenoi to keep the Turks out of Anatolia.
Imagine a second coming of Jesus into America.
I can see it now.
Fox News: THIS JUST IN! BROWN SKIN SOCIALIST HIPPIE JEWISH MAN WHO DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH HAS BEEN ARRESTED BY ICE!!!
Turkey? That’s a funny way of spelling anatolia?
turkey, which didnt exist then.
Even Cappadocia is a greek region.
The weird fantasy people have with the idea that anyone in England actually cares that St George wasn’t English goes on.
Does Spain have the same thing around St. James? YoU CaLl hER oUR LaDy of GuaDaluPe but she was actually from NAZARETH; triggered yet, Mexican gammons? So sick of this continuity remain bullshit.
Also btw, St George wasn’t from Turkey, nothing resembling Turkey existed until like a thousand years after he died.
… because everyone has always lived exactly where they do now untill 1492
There’s a fella there with a saltire…
He would say ANATOLIA, not Turkey.
Luv me kabob, luv me Ingerlund flag, ‘ate Tuhhks (no’ racial, jus’ dun’ loike ‘em), end of
The Turks invaded Anatolia from Central Asia and gradually ethnically cleansed the Greeks who had lived there for thousands of years.
That image is pure and complete propaganda. One, St George is a Saint of the 3rd Century. Meaning that back then Britannia and Anatollia where part of the Roman Empire so it was basically all one Empire. The ethnicity of the people of Anatollia where Greeks not Turks which were still living in the Stepps in Central Asia. But that’s not the point. Whoever lying propagandist who made this image just wanted to virtue signal about how good of a person they are. Said person has no clue of history and represents a lot of people who just go with vibes.
He wasn’t originally our patron saint anyway.
A Turk wrote this hahaha
They would say the same to Jesus
Those countries are only a bit less modern than Türkiye being Turkey’s exonym, lol.
Yeah this chestnut again.
He would never have said Turkey, let alone Türkiye.
1. It wasn’t Turkish until several centuries later when the Turks invaded from the east. Surely you know this.
2. This is in English, and the English is ‘Turkey’. English is a language, not some ISO standard, and that like any language is determined by its speech community, not because Erdoğan decided that the name we’ve used for centuries isn’t good enough. It’s not like they call it ‘England’ instead of İngiltere. Only officials there and try-hards online would say this.