Geographical name changes in Turkey name changes have continued to retain their Greek origins. For example, the modern name "İzmir" derives from the former Greek name Σμύρνη "Smyrna", through the first two syllables of the phrase "εις Σμύρνην" (pronounced "is Smirnin"), which means "to Smyrna" in Greek. A similar etymology also applies to other Turkish cities with former Greek names, such as İznik (from the phrase "is Nikaean", meaning "to Nicaea"), Istanbul (from the phrase "is tan Polin" or "to the City"), or even for the Greek island of Kos, called "İstanköy" in Turkish. Nişanyan estimates that 4,200 Greek geographical locations have been changed, the
Scylax of Caryanda the natives, which he would have accepted in good faith. Scylax's "Periplus" provided the West with its first account of the easterly people and served as a model for later Greek writers. More lastingly, it gave India its name. The people of the Indus region were referred to as "Hiduš" or "Hidush" in Persian (due to sound change of "*s" > "h" from Proto-Iranian "Sindhu"). If Scylax wrote in the Ionic dialect of Greek, which did not pronounce initial "h" sounds, he would have transformed it to "Indos" (plural: "Indoi"). Their land was characterised as "Indike" (the adjectival form, meaning