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noun

Adrianople n.

A city in Northwest Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.

Synonyms: Edirne, Adrianopolis

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adrianople" Quotes from Famous Books

... together; he is otherways very good. I once did him a service; and I have the produce of this farm for the trouble of taking care of it, except twenty zechines which I pay to an aged Armenian who resides in a small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord brought here from Adrianople; I don't know ...

— The Vampyre; A Tale • John William Polidori

... of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople; on the Maritza valley branch of the Constantinople-Salonica railway, about 35 m. S. of Adrianople. Pop. (1905) about 10,000. Demotica is built at the foot of a conical hill on the left bank of the river Kizildeli, near its junction with the Maritza. It was formerly the ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various

... Excuse me, the thing is impossible,—all Moldavians are born talking! I have known a Moldavian who could not speak, but he was not born dumb. His master, an Armenian, snipped off part of his tongue at Adrianople. He drove him mad with his jabber. He is now in London, where his master has a house. I have letters of credit on the house: the clerk paid me money in London, the master was absent; the money which you received for the horse ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

Words linked to "Adrianople" : urban center, city, Edirne