Le Stamboul

Le Stamboul was a French language newspaper published from Constantinople, the entirety of which is now known as Istanbul, in the Ottoman Empire and then in Turkey from 1875 to 1962.[1] It was the leading French newspaper in the city.[2][3] As of the beginning of the 20th century it was estimated to have a daily circulation of around 5,000.[2] The founders of the paper were Irish brothers, John Laffan Hanly and Baron Henry Laffan Hanly.[1] The latter was the director and the former was the founding editor.[1] Pierre Le Goff was one of the editors-in-chief of the paper[4] which was published six days per week.[1]

The name "Stamboul", the rendering of "Istanbul" used in French, referred to the portion of the city in the old city walls and not the entire city; the name "Istanbul" became used for the entire city in Turkish post-1923,[5] and the new Republican Turkish government requested foreign embassies and companies switch to Istanbul in 1930.[6][7] In 1934 the paper was also renamed as Istanbul.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e Seza Sinanlar Uslu (2013). "Un critique français à Constantinople: Régis Delbeuf (1854-1911)" (PDF). Synergies Turquie (in French) (8): 142. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b Sarah Abrevaya Stein (1999). The Creation of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish Newspaper Cultures in the Russian and Ottoman Empires. Stanford University. p. 99.
  3. ^ François Georgeon; Frédéric Hitzel (9 December 2011). Les Ottomans et le temps. BRILL. p. 254. ISBN 90-04-21132-2.
  4. ^ Ateş Uslu (2015). "The Levantine Press of Istanbul and the Outbreak of the Great War (1914)". In István Majoros (ed.). Sorsok, frontok, eszmék. Tanulmányok az első világháború 100. évfordulójára (PDF). Budapest: ELTE BTK. p. 250.
  5. ^ Edhem Eldem. (21 May 2010). "Istanbul." In: Gábor Ágoston and Bruce Alan Masters. Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing, ISBN 1438110251, 9781438110257. Start and CITED: p. 286. "Originally, the name Istanbul referred only to[...]in the 18th century." and "For the duration of Ottoman rule, western sources continued to refer to the city as Constantinople, reserving the name Stamboul for the walled city." and "With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire[...]all previous names were abandoned and Istanbul came to designate the entire city." // (entry ends, with author named, on p. 290)
  6. ^ Ezel Shaw. (27 May 1977). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol II, ISBN 0521291666, 9780521291668. p. 386; Robinson (1965), The First Turkish Republic, p. 298
  7. ^ "Istanbul, not Constantinople". National Geographic Society. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

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