Istanbulball

Istanbulball (Turkish: İstanbul), also known as  Constantinopleball which was formally called  Byzantiniumball is the most populated city of Turkeyball. He was first adopted by SPQRball. Today, Greeceball wants him back.

Istambulball and Constantinopleball are the same cityball, but in different time periods of its life.

History
The first known name of the city is Byzantium ( Greek: Βυζάντιο - Byzántion, Pronounced "Vizadio" in modern Greek), around 660 BC. It took on the name of Constantinople ( Greek: Κωνσταντινουπόλεως - Konstantinoúpolis, or Κωνσταντινούπολη - Konstantinoúpoli;  Latin: Constantinopolis;  Ottoman Turkish:  - Kostantiniyye‎) after its re-foundation under Byzantineball emperor Constantine I, who transferred the imperial capital from it's historic base,  Romeball, to     Byzantium in 330 AD and designated his new capital New Rome (Latin: Nova Roma).

The modern Turkish name for the city, İstanbul, was used alongside Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original name of Constantinople, during the period of  Ottoman rule. Despite the name change, western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century. After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the  Turkish government began to formally object to the use of Constantinople in other languages and ask that others use the name which they preferred, Istanbul. The official renaming took place on March 28, 1930. Constantinople became Istanbul and was no longer the capital of Turkeyball.

Recently, in 2016, it has been attacked a few times by the evil ISISball, which is a sad day for the city. Now, Greeceball still calls it Constantinople. In fact, a lot of people do.

Hosted Eurovision in 2004.

History before Ottoman rule
When SPQRball split into the  Western Roman Empireball and the  Byzantine Empireball,  Byzantine Empireball made Constantinopleball its capital city. Constantinopleball was very rich and was famed for its defense although in 1204 it was taken and sacked by the Crusaders and for a while numerous sections of the fractured  Crusader Constantinopleball were controlled by the  Crusaders and the  Latin Empire and competing byzantine and greek factions until the Byzantine Empire took back Constantinople, but after the retaking of Constantinopleball, Constantinople became poor and had a bad economy from all the years of Latin misrule and only it recovered a bit. This decline led to Constantinople slowly being anchlussed by the  Ottoman Empire over the 15th century until Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans.

How to draw Istanbulball

 * 1) Color the basic circle shape of red.
 * 2) Draw the  Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality emblem.
 * 3) Draw eyes and you've finished.

How to draw Constantinopleball

 * 1) Draw a red countryball
 * 2) Made a yellow cross to the left of it  (like the nordic countries)
 * 3) On the right side of the cross draw a yellow rectangle and draw a cross on it.
 * 4) Draw a yellow symbol on each side of the yellow nordic cross
 * 5) Draw the eyes and eyepatch holder and you've finished.