What is "sinop"

Sinop can refer to:

• Sinop, Turkey, a city on the Black Sea
  • Battle of Sinop, 1853 naval battle in the Sinop port
    • Sinop (ship), Russian ships named after the battle
• Sinop Province, the province in Turkey of which the above city is the capital
  • Sinop (electoral district), the province's electoral district
• Sinop, Mato Grosso, a city in Mato Grosso state, Brazil

Sinop is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects two members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.

At least two ships of the Imperial Russian Navy have been named Sinop after the 1853 Russian victory at the Battle of Sinop.

• 135-gun, steam-powered, first-rate ship of the line built during the 1850s and stricken in 1874.

• - built during the 1880s and scrapped by the Soviets in 1922.