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Adrianople
/ ˌeɪdrɪəˈnɒpəlɪs; ˌeɪdrɪəˈnəʊpəl /
Example Sentences
The capture of Adrianople effectively brought what’s considered the First Balkan War to a close.
Through the winter and spring of 1463 Mahomet was preparing the final blow by massing one hundred and fifty thousand men at Adrianople.
When his brother, the emperor Baldwin I., was captured at the battle of Adrianople in April 1205, Henry was chosen regent of the empire, succeeding to the throne when the news of Baldwin’s death arrived.
The Eastern emperor, Valens, hastened to the scene of insurrection, but only to lose the great battle of Adrianople, August 9, 378, and to meet his own death.
Few of them narrate events previous to the invasion of Europe by the Turks in 1355, but some refer to facts coeval with the Mussulman empire in Adrianople.
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