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  • Her father, Maurice Alfassa, was a wealthy Turkish banker from Adrianopolis and her mother, Mathilda Ismaloun, came from Cairo.

    The Mother Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Sozopolis, titular see in the Balkans, suffragan of Adrianopolis.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • From being suffragan to Adrianopolis it became in the fourteenth century a metropolis without suffragan sees; it disappeared perhaps temporarily with the Turkish conquest, but reappeared later; in 1808 it was united to the See of Agathopolis and has remained so.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Kara-Agasch near Adrianopolis under the Assumptionists and the other at Adrianople under the Resurrectionists.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • It is now Silivri, chief town of a caza in the vilayet of Adrianopolis, containing 8000 inhabitants, Turks and Greeks, mostly farmers or fishermen.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The titular resides at Agathopolis, now Akhtébolou, in the vilayet of Adrianopolis, in Turkey.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • A lot of these people fly into Constantinople [Istanbul] on cheap flights, and then with the help of smugglers make the short journey to Adrianopolis [Edirne].

    The Guardian World News Helena Smith 2011

  • These kinds of guarantees were provided to the Armenian subjects in order to undermine the Czarist Russian claims that it was occupying Ottoman territory, stretching all the way to San Stefano (Adrianopolis) on the Black Sea to protect minorities.

    Assyrian International News Agency 2010

  • These kinds of guarantees were provided to the Armenian subjects in order to undermine the Czarist Russian claims that it was occupying Ottoman territory, stretching all the way to San Stefano (Adrianopolis) on the Black Sea to protect minorities.

    Assyrian International News Agency 2010

  • And then people cross the Misty Mountains following the Arduin that flows down to the kingdoms of the plains till they come to Andronopolis from which it’s a week’s journey to Adrianopolis and the port of Utter Pratchet on the s-e coast of Lyornesse.

    The Map Thing « 2009

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