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ADRIANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
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ADRIANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hadrianopolis (Hadrianoupolis) (Adrianople or Edrene), the most important
of the many towns founded by the emperor Hadrian, was situated in Thrace, at the
point where the river Tonzus joins the Hebrus, and where the latter river, having
been fed in its upper course by numerous tributaries, becomes navigable. From
Ammianus Marcellinus (xiv. 11, xxvii. 4) it would appear that Hadrianopolis was
not an entirely new town, but that there had existed before on the same spot a
place called Uscudama, which is mentioned also by Eutropius (vi. 8). But as Uscudama
is not noticed by earlier writers, some modern critics have inferred that Marcellinus
was mistaken, and that Uscudama was situated in another part of the country. Such
criticism, however, is quite arbitrary, and ought not to be listened to. At one
time Hadrianopolis was designated by the name of Orestias or Odrysus (Lamprid.
Heliog. 7; Nicet. pp. 360, 830; Aposp. Geog. ap. Hudson, iv. p. 42); but this
name seems afterwards to have been dropped. The country around Hadrianople was
very fertile, and the site altogether very fortunate, in consequence of which
its inhabitants soon rose to a high degree of prosperity. They carried on extensive
commerce and were distinguished for their manufactures, especially of arms. The
city was strongly fortified, and had to sustain a siege by the Goths in A.D. 378,
on which occasion the workmen in the manufactories of arms formed a distinct corps.
Next to Constantinople, Hadrianopolis was the first city of the Eastern empire,
and this rank it maintained throughout the middle ages; the Byzantine emperors,
as well as the Turkish sultans, often resided at Hadrianopolis. (Spart. Hadr.
20; Amm. Marc. xxxi. 6, 12, 15; It. Ant. 137, 175, 322; Procop. B. G. iii. 40;
Ann. Comn. x. p. 277; Zosim. ii. 22; Cedren. ii. pp. 184, 284, 302, 454; Hierocl.
p. 635; Nicet. p. 830.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
The modern Adrianople. A town in Thrace, on the right bank of the Hebrus, situated in an extensive plain, founded by the emperor Hadrian. In the Middle Ages it ranked second to Constantinople alone.
The primitive name of Adrianopolis in Thrace, and which the Byzantine authors frequently employ in speaking of that city. The name is derived from the circumstance of Orestes having purified himself on this spot after the murder of his mother.
Ouskoudama was the Thracian name of the ancient city of Orestias and was preserved along with the name "Orestias" till the Roman times.
District of Adrianoupoli.
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