[jiggliemon]

Current Day Turkey – Used to be called Constantinople, named after Constantine. Originally named Byzantium after Byzas from Megara.

[cookie_monsta]

I think you might be talking about Istanbul

[madcaptenor]

The empire that ruled from Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire, is named after its founder, Osman I. (The modern country, Turkey, isn't named after its founder Ataturk, but rather the other way around.)

Therefore, the "Ottoman" footstool is named after a person.