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Definition of Adrianople

1. Noun. A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adrianople

Literary usage of Adrianople

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and (1914)
"I carried out the order issued by Savov and Danev, permitting high Turkish officials to leave adrianople to go to Constantinople. ..."

2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1830)
"... and push their advanced Guards towards adrianople—The Vizier leaves ... on tlie Road to adrianople—-The Russians attack the Turks at ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1830)
"... and push their advanced Guards towards adrianople—The Vizier leaves ... on the Road to adrianople—The Russians attack the Turks at ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"A plan is also in forwardness for the establishment of a grand college at adrianople. It has been patronized with zeal by Baron George Sakellarios, ..."

5. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life by Frederic Austin Ogg (1908)
"The Eastern emperor, Valens, hastened to the scene of insurrection, but only to lose the great battle of adrianople, August 9,, and to meet his own death. ..."

6. With the Victorious Bulgarians by Hermenegild Wagner (1913)
"CHAPTER XV THE STRUGGLE FOR adrianople THE city of Adrian, on the Maritza ... Then came the sovereignty of the Turks; adrianople was carried by storm in the ..."

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