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Sinope <ref name="term_61084" /> | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_79892" /> == | ||
<p> in [[Grecian]] mythology, was a daughter of Asopus and Metope, or of Ares and Aegina or Parnassa. [[Apollo]] became enamoured of her beauty and carried her off from Boeotia to Paphlagonia, where she brought forth Syrus and gave her name to the town of Sinope. </p> | <p> A seaport of [[Turkey]] in Asia, situated on a narrow isthmus connecting with the mainland the rocky headland of Cape [[Sinope]] which projects into the [[Black]] Sea, 350 m. NE. of Constantinople; possesses two fine harbours, naval arsenal, Byzantine ruins, etc.; an ancient [[Greek]] town, the birthplace of Diogenes, and capital of Mithridates; it was captured by the Turks in 1461, who themselves in 1853 suffered a disastrous naval defeat in the [[Bay]] of Sinope at the hands of the Russians. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_61084" /> == | |||
<p> in [[Grecian]] mythology, was a daughter of Asopus and Metope, or of [[Ares]] and Aegina or Parnassa. [[Apollo]] became enamoured of her beauty and carried her off from Boeotia to Paphlagonia, where she brought forth Syrus and gave her name to the town of Sinope. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_79892"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/sinope Sinope from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_61084"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/sinope Sinope from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_61084"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/sinope Sinope from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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