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
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