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Adrianople

noun
1.
A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.  Synonyms: Adrianopolis, Edirne.





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... the harp; she can draw and embroider, and is always contented and cheerful. No living man can boast of having seen her features, and she loves me so dearly that my will is hers. My daughter is a treasure, and I offer her to you if you will consent to go for one year to Adrianople to reside with a relative of mine, who will teach you our religion, our language, and our manners. You will return at the end of one year, and as soon as you have become a Mussulman my daughter shall be your wife. You will find a house ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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... of the pashas. I should have overthrown the Turkish empire, and founded a great empire at Constantinople, which would have fixed my place in history higher than Constantine and Mohammed II. Perhaps I should have returned to Paris by way of Adrianople and Vienna, after annihilating the house of Austria. Well, my dear general, that is the project which that little hovel of a ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
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