ADRIANOPLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Adrianople; Adrianopolis; Edirne

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Adrianople" is a part of...):

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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