Etymology

Tsargrad

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Old Church Slavonic Царьградъ
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The story

  1. Old Church Slavonic · borrowed fromЦарьградъ“city of an emperor, city of a king”
  2. English todayTsargrad

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Царьградъ (Carĭgradŭ, “city of an emperor, city of a king”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.