ADRIANOPLE, or ANDIIINOPLE, a celebrated city of Turkey, in Europe, in the province of Romania, built, or restored, by the emperor Adrian, from whom it has received its name. This city was built in honour of An tinous, and at first bore the name of „-latinoa. It is situa ted in a plain encircled with hills, on very unequal grouml on the banks of the river Alariza. It is about five miles in circumference, of a circular form, and surrounded by a wall flanked with towers. The houses are well built ; but the streets are um veil. nin row, ,ind It has, however, a fine bazar, or m•.e, C t Bassa, which is an arched builuing, of out half a mile long, with six gates and 365 elegant shcps, occupied Ly Turks, Armenians, and Jews. Besides the Ali Bas•,t, there is anodic r oazar dwancr „of,in a mile long, 111d of wi 11 provide d shop,. Iii a f.iffeluit the hr to which is Lonniii the sale of c cry anti, le of gold and silver, jewels, pis tols, scimitars, &e. It COhlillIIS about 200 shops, and has a coNering of hoards, supported two rows of large pil.ars. The palace of toe grand I. izier is re markable only fur its extent aith pleasant situation; it idiom two miles in compass, and has It is built afte r the Turkish style, and its gardens are said to be several miles in circumference. But the chief ob
ject:, of attention in Adrianople are four mosques Of ex quisite taste and workmanship. Their high and elegant steeples; their galleries raised on pillars of beautiful sculpture, with pedestals and chigno•'s of cast brass; gates of precious marble, exquisitely carved; delighl ful fountains and stately porticos; cupolas surmounted ti ith gilded balls—every thing here arrests the eye, and wears an ail- of magnificence. Adrianople was taken from the Greek emperor by sultan An wrath I. in 1362, and continued the capital of the Turkish empire till the taking 01 Constantinople in At present, it is un der the government of a Mullali Cadi, whose authority in ci‘il and criminal matters is uncontrolled. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, under the patriarch of Constan tinople ; and contains about 100,000 inhabitants, or, ac cording to other accounts, 13o,ou0. Here the grand signior frequently resides, particularly when he finds unsafe, to remain at Constantinople. 'Cher adjacent coun try is very fertile, and its wine is esteemed the best in Turkey. N. Lat. 41° 41'. E. Long. 26' 21'. (4)