Edirne, historically known as Orestias, Orestiada, Adrianople or Adriana, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace, situated 7 kilometers from the Greek border and 20 kilometers from the Bulgarian border. Edirne was the second capital city of the Ottoman Empire from the 1360s to 1453, before Constantinople became its capital.
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1. Edirne (Wikipedia)
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Its population is 180,002 (2022).
2. Edirne (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 41.67304, longitude 26.57361
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 42 m
P571 (inception)
inception 125
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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