What is "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

Sinope ( ; ) is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory in 1914, and is named after Sinope of Greek mythology.

Sinope did not receive its present name until 1975; before then, it was simply known as . It was sometimes called " Hades" between 1955 and 1975.

Sinope was the outermost known moon of Jupiter until the discovery of Megaclite in 2000. The most distant moon of Jupiter now known is .

In Greek Mythology, Sinope ( Greek: Σινώπη) was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea.

According to Corinna and Diodorus Siculus, Sinope was seized by the god Apollo and carried over to the place where later stood the city honouring her name. Diodorus adds that she bore to Apollo a son named Syrus, supposedly afterwards king of the Syrians, who were named after him.

However, the Argonautica and Valerius Flaccus relate that Sinope was abducted to the site by Zeus, who, in his passion, swore to fulfil her dearest wish. Sinope declared she wished to remain a virgin. Sinope later tricked Apollo and the river Halys in the same fashion and remained a virgin all her life.

Sinope is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.