Sinope

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
• Sinope, Leicestershire, a hamlet in the Midlands of England
• Sinope (mythology), in Greek mythology, daughter of Asopus
• Sinope (moon), a moon of the planet Jupiter
• Sinope (moth), a moth genus
• Sinope Gospels, fragment of a 6th-century illuminated manuscript

People

• Diogenes of Sinope (412–323 BC), Greek philosopher
• Aquila of Sinope, 2nd century translator
• Marcion of Sinope (ca. 85–160), early Christian theologian turned heretic.

History

• Siege of Sinope, a battle during the early part of the Byzantine Empire
• Empire of Trebizond, the territory for which the siege was fought