Edirne

Edirne , Turkish: , formerly invited as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis, is the city in Turkey, in a northwestern component of the province of Edirne as well as Eastern Thrace,to Turkey's borders with Greece together with Bulgaria 3.24 miles or 5.22 kilometers from the Greek border at the closest point.

Edirne was the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1369 to 1453, ago Constantinople became the empire's capital. The estimated population in 2019 was 185,408.

Names and etymology

The city was founded as Hadrianopolis Adrianople in English, ; Ἁδριανούπολις in , Romanian and Aromanian: Odrina, Albanian: Edrenë, Slovene: Odrin and Serbian: Једрене, romanized: , are all adapted forms of either Hadrianopolis or Edirne.