Sinigaglia
or SENIGALLIA, a seaport on the Adriatic coast of Italy; 16 miles N. W. of Ancona; was down to 1869 celebrated for its annual fair, July 20 to Aug. 8. It was founded by the Senonian Gauls, and colonized by the Romans 289 B. C. There are here a cathedral (1787) and a palace of the dukes of Urbino. Pius IX. was born here.
SINOPE (Turkish, Sinub), a town of Asiatic Turkey; on a rocky rocky tongue pro jecting into the Black Sea; 220 miles W. by N. of Trebizond. It has two harbors, one presenting the finest anchorage along the N. coast of Asiatic Turkey. The town is surrounded by ancient Byzantine walls, and has a ruined castle built under Byzantine influence. The bay was the scene of a naval engagement on Nov. 30, 1853, when a Turkish squadron was destroyed by the Russian fleet. The ancient city of Sinope was founded by a colony of Mile sian Greeks, and for several years shared with Byzantium the supremacy of the Euxine. It was made by Pharnaces the capital of the kingdom of Pontus in 183 B. C. The great Mithridates, who was born within its walls, raised it to a lofty pitch of splendor. But in 70 в. c. it capit ulated to Lucullus, and in 45 B. C. was made a Roman colony. ony. After belonging successively to the empire of Trebizond (from 1204) and the Seljuks, it was conquered by the Turks in 1461. Sinope was the birthplace of Diogenes the cynic. Pop. about 9,000.