Sinope may refer to: * Sinop, Turkey, a city on the Black Sea, historically known as Sinope ** Battle of Sinop, 1853 naval battle in the Sinop port * Sinop Province * Sinope, Leicestershire, a hamlet in the Midlands of England * Sinope (mythology), in Greek mythology, daughter of Asopus *

Sinope (moon) Sinope is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory in 1914, and is named after Sinope of Greek mythology. Sinope did not receive its present name until 1975; (in which he declines ...

, a moon of the planet Jupiter * ''Sinope'' (moth), a moth genus *

Sinope Gospels The Sinope Gospels, designated by O or 023 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 21 ( Soden), also known as the Codex Sinopensis, is a fragment of a 6th-century illuminated Greek Gospel Book. Along with the Rossano Gospels, the Sinope Gospels has ...

, fragment of a 6th-century illuminated manuscript

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Siege of Sinope The siege of Sinope in 1214 was a successful siege and capture of Sinope by the Sultanate of Rum under their Sultan, Kaykaus I (r. 1211–1220). Sinope was an important port city on the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey, at the time held by the E ...

, a battle during the late history of the Byzantine Empire *

Empire of Trebizond The Empire of Trebizond, or Trapezuntine Empire, was a monarchy and one of three successor rump states of the Byzantine Empire, along with the Despotate of the Morea and the Principality of Theodoro, that flourished during the 13th through to t ...

, the territory for which the above siege was fought

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