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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 • Oct. 2, 2018

Feeling only vague remorse, he walks through the hills to his parents' home in San Stefano Belbo.

From Time Magazine Archive

She visited the sick in hospital, she carried plum puddings to our men working at San Stefano, she was a never-failing source of sympathy and encouragement.

From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis

The Bulgarians at this point were once again approaching the frontiers that had been established by the Treaty of San Stefano.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.

It was in memory of this that, in 1878 at the congress of Berlin, Bismarck did his best to impair the advantages which Russia had obtained under the treaty of San Stefano.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various

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