Edirne
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- proper noun
- During our trip to Turkey, we visited Edirne, a city famous for its historical architecture.
Examples
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Edmund tells me the gypsies live up near Edirne Kapi.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the 1340s, they gained their first strongholds in Europe, and in the late 1360s, they captured Adrianople from the Byzantines, named it Edirne, and made it their capital.
Blog text (32) -
Then, in 1863, he left Baghdad for Istanbul; later that year he was exiled to Edirne in Rumelia.
Academic text (2004) -
Among the Jews who came to the Ottoman city of Edirne (in western Turkey) from Christian Europe was Rabbi Isaac Tzarfati, who was made Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman dominions in the 14th century.
Academic text (2010) -
These orders seem characteristic of the peace-and-comfort-loving Ahmed III, who spent the first seventeen years of his reign in Edirne, away from his capital, for fear of an uprising, and who occupied himself with architectural projects both in Edirne and Istanbul until his demise in 1730.
Academic text (2003) -
The university in Edirne offers courses on Ottoman history due to the city's rich past.
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Many tourists travel to Edirne because of its unique location near the borders of Greece and Bulgaria.
Synonyms
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A historic city in northwestern Turkey now called Edirne
An ancient city in northwest Turkey rebuilt by the Roman emperor Hadrian and now called Edirne
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Edirne comes from the older name Adrianople, which comes from the Roman emperor Hadrian and the Greek part -polis meaning 'city'. So Edirne was originally 'Hadrian's city', and that helps explain its old name and long history as an important capital.