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Edirne
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E·dir·ne  (-dîrn) Formerly A·dri·a·no·ple (dr--npl)
A city of northwest Turkey northwest of Istanbul. It was founded c. a.d. 125 by the Roman emperor Hadrian on the site of an earlier Thracian town and was conquered at various times by Visigoths, Bulgarians, Crusaders, Turks, and Russians. Held by Greece after 1920, it was restored to Turkey in 1923. Population: 119,000.
Edirne [ɛˈdirnɛ]
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(Placename) a city in NW Turkey: a Thracian town, rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian. Pop.: 115 083 (1997) Former name Adrianople
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Noun1.Edirne - a city in northwestern TurkeyEdirne - a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian
Adrianople, Adrianopolis
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
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