San Stefano

American  

[sahn ste-fah-naw] / sɑn ˈstɛ fɑˌnɔ /

noun

1. the former name of Yeşilköy, a town in Turkey, near Istanbul: treaty between Russia and Turkey 1878.

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San Stefano British  

/ ˌsæn stɪˈfɑːnəʊ /

noun

1. Turkish name: Yeşilköy.  a village in NW Turkey, near Istanbul on the Sea of Marmara: scene of the signing (1878) of the treaty ending the Russo-Turkish War

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Example Sentences

See Bologna has an emotional statue of Jesus’s death at Santa Maria della Vita church, and the fascinating San Stefano, an unfinished complex of seven churches.

From New York Times

Be at San Stefano at ten, and we can have a little talk in the church when I have finished.'

From Project Gutenberg

The following morning I arrived at San Stefano at half-past nine, and to my surprise found Giulia waiting for me.

From Project Gutenberg

On the Sunday following his meeting with Checco, it was known that Girolamo meant to hear mass at the church of San Stefano, and Jacopo Ronchi, commander of a troop, stationed himself, with two other soldiers, to await him.

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A complete Russian victory in 1878 issued in the treaties first of San Stefano and then of Berlin, by which Turkey yielded to Russia the state of Bessarabia and districts south of the Caucasus, the independence of Serbia, Montenegro, and Roumania were recognised by the Porte, Bulgaria was constituted an autonomous state, Bosnia and Herzegovina were ceded to Austria, Thessaly to Greece, and Cyprus to Britain.

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