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Edirne

UK/ɛˈdiɹnɛ/ uncommon

noun

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

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From Turkish Edirne and Ottoman Turkish ادرنه (Edirne), from Byzantine Greek Ἁδριανούπολις (Hadrianoúpolis), from Ancient Greek Ἁδριανός (Hadrianós, “Hadrian”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Adrianople and Adrianopolis.

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