As colleagues say it is a beautiful Turkish city of about 140. 000 inhabitants located in the European part of Turkey about 100 km northwest of the sea of Marmara between the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits. Rebuilt on the Thracian enclave of Uskadama by the emperor Hadrian in the 125 was called from then Adrianopolis or Hadrianopolis. Strategic point historically disputed by Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Slavs and Ottoman Turks.
