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Situated 7 km (4.3 mi) from the Greek and 20 km (12 mi) from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1369 to 1453, [4] before Constantinople became its capital. The city is a commercial centre for woven textiles, silks, carpets and agricultural products and has a growing tourism industry.
Edirne Province (Turkish: Edirne ili) is a Turkish province located in East Thrace. Part of European Turkey, it is one of only three provinces located entirely within continental Europe. Its area is 6,145 km 2, and its population is 414,714 (2022).
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Edirne (formerly Adrianople) is a city in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne in the region of East Thrace, close to Turkey's borders with Greece and Bulgaria. In Greek, it is sometimes called Adrianoúpolis, in Bulgarian its name is Odrin.
The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,614,421 articles as of 28 May 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
The Selimiye Mosque ( Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is an Ottoman imperial mosque, located in the city of Edirne (formerly Adrianople), Turkey. It was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575. [2] It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements ...
The Eyalet of Adrianople or Edirne [2] or Çirmen [3] ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت ادرنه; Eyālet-i Edirne) [4] was constituted from parts of the eyalets of Silistra and Rumelia in 1826. It was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Vilayet ...
22. Edirne ( Turkis pronunciation: [eˈdiɾne]) (formerly Adrianople) is a ceety in Eastren Thrace, the northwastren pairt o Turkey, close tae the borders wi Greece an Bulgarie. Edirne servit as the third caipital ceety o the Ottoman Empire frae 1413 tae 1453, afore Constantinople ( Istanbul) became the empire's new caipital.
