Sinope
Americannoun
noun
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These stories tell us that Diogenes was chased out of his native Sinope, on the north coast of what’s now Turkey, for his supposed role in a scheme to debase the city’s currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
In the Pontus, the language of the first Greek colonizers of Trebizond was the Ionic Greek of Sinope.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
Diogenes himself was born a citizen of the Greek town of Sinope, in what is now coastal Turkey.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2016
In Sinope, one of his cities, was found an astronomical sphere, which seems to show that the science of the stars was within the circle of his knowledge.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
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