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| | EDIRNE , Adrianople [II:683a] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Adrianople witnessed the victory of Constantine over Licinius in 323, the defeat of Valens by the Goths in 378; it was besieged by the Avars in 586, captured by the Bulgars in 914, besieged again by the |
 | | At the battle of Adrianople in 1205 the Latin Emperor of Byzantium Baldwin was defeated and captured by the Bulgars who joined with the Greeks in resisting Catholic encroachment. |
 | | Views and plans of the mosques and other buildings are given by C. Sayger and A. Desarnod, Album d'un voyage en Turquie en 1829-1830, Paris n.d., fol., Thomas Allom and Robert Walsh, Constantinople, ii, 73, 77, and notably by C. Gurlitt, Die Bauten Adrianopels, in Orientalisches Archiv, i, p. |
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