It is possible that I shall stay a day or two at Adrianople, which is half way. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends] Reference
Servant in this city which is called Adrianople certain of this community enquired concerning the meaning of ‘victory.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveler’s Narrative] Reference
Adrianople and extended his sway over most of the Peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Adrianople; Canaan, to the Canaanites; Saba, to the Sabaeans. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Adrianople, leaving his army in winter quarters on the Danube. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Turkey, and especially in the Vilayets of Adrianople and Smyrna. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
They soon made themselves masters of Philippopolis and Adrianople. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Adrianople had been waged by the Circassians proper in the western. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
Nov. 12 -- Military revolt in Adrianople against German commanders. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
Feb. 1 -- Turks withdraw forces from Adrianople to defend Tchatalja. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
At Adrianople, the Emperor Valens could not raise an army of Romans. From Wordnik.com. [How Bush's GOP Embraced the 'Science of Lying'] Reference
Bulgaria by giving her Adrianople and Thrace, while Greece was to have. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Bulgars invaded the districts of Adrianople and central Macedonia; under. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
At the same time Dusan, having taken Adrianople, advanced on the capital. From Wordnik.com. [1351] Reference
Adrianople is their capital for the time being; Mahomet II. commands them. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
April 15 -- The greater part of the garrisons at Adrianople, Demotika, and. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Adrianople was conquered in 1361 and made the capital of the Turkish Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
A third example of the kind took place at the military hospital at Adrianople. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Samuel recovered, however, reconquered Macedonia, and sacked Adrianople (1003). From Wordnik.com. [976] Reference
Why has the battle of Adrianople been called "the Cannae of the fourth century"?. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The Ottomans, having overrun Thrace, took Adrianople, which became their capital. From Wordnik.com. [1351] Reference
Russia also made further additions to her territory by the treaty of Adrianople in. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
In 913 he appeared at Constantinople; in 914 he took Adrianople, only to lose it again. From Wordnik.com. [904] Reference
The city was too strong for him, and he retired, devastating Thrace and taking Adrianople. From Wordnik.com. [766] Reference
Licinius, after his defeat before Adrianople, retired to Byzantium, where he was besieged by. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The emperor Valens misjudged their strength and rashly gave them battle near Adrianople in Thrace. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Nelka joined the division of sisters at Adrianople and took part in the fighting to take that city. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
Ottomans broke up from its cantonments about Adrianople, and directed its march towards the Danube. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The defeat at Adrianople is considered one of the few really decisive battles in the world's history. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
April 1 -- Troops are being concentrated at Adrianople as a precaution in case war starts with Bulgaria. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
The three brothers set out; they separate at Adrianople, agreeing to meet there again at an appointed time. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Under his rule the Bulgarian realm extended from the Carpathians to the neighbourhood of Adrianople; Serdica. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
It is nowhere found in compact masses except in north-eastern Bulgaria and the region between Adrianople, the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Then followed the capture of Adrianople, where in earlier centuries the Visigoths had destroyed a Roman army. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Adrianople a culvert had been blown up by the Bulgarian insurgents and we were brought to a decisive standstill. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
From this city to Constantinople there are two distinct lines, -- one passing by Semlin and Belgrade to Adrianople, the other by. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
They never believed the news of her defeat in the Balkans and the reoccupation of Adrianople confirmed them in their skepticism. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
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