Imbros, officially referred to as
Gökçeada in Turkey (older name in Turkish:
İmroz;
GreekGreek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...
: Ίμβρος –
Imvros), is the largest island of
TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
, part of
Çanakkale ProvinceÇanakkale is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the town of Çanakkale.Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European and an Asian part. The European part is formed by the Gallipoli peninsula, while the Asian part is largely coterminous...
. It is located at the entrance of
Saros BaySaros Bay or Gulf of Saros is an inlet of the northern Aegean Sea located north of the Gallipoli Peninsula in northwestern Turkey.The bay is 75 km long and 35 km wide. Far from industrialized areas and thanks to underwater currents, it is a popular summer recreation resort with sandy...
in the northern
Aegean SeaThe Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
, also the westernmost point of Turkey (
Avlaka peninsulaİncirburnu, also Avlaka Burnu or İnceburun, is the westernmost point of Turkey. It is located at Gökçeada , at the entrance of Gulf of Saros in the northern Aegean Sea.-See also:*Imbros...
). With an area of 279 km² (108 square miles), Imbros contains some wooded areas.
According to the 2000 Census, the island of Imbros had a total population of 8,875.
Imbros, officially referred to as
Gökçeada in Turkey (older name in Turkish:
İmroz;
GreekGreek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...
: Ίμβρος –
Imvros), is the largest island of
TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
, part of
Çanakkale ProvinceÇanakkale is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the town of Çanakkale.Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European and an Asian part. The European part is formed by the Gallipoli peninsula, while the Asian part is largely coterminous...
. It is located at the entrance of
Saros BaySaros Bay or Gulf of Saros is an inlet of the northern Aegean Sea located north of the Gallipoli Peninsula in northwestern Turkey.The bay is 75 km long and 35 km wide. Far from industrialized areas and thanks to underwater currents, it is a popular summer recreation resort with sandy...
in the northern
Aegean SeaThe Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...
, also the westernmost point of Turkey (
Avlaka peninsulaİncirburnu, also Avlaka Burnu or İnceburun, is the westernmost point of Turkey. It is located at Gökçeada , at the entrance of Gulf of Saros in the northern Aegean Sea.-See also:*Imbros...
). With an area of 279 km² (108 square miles), Imbros contains some wooded areas.
According to the 2000 Census, the island of Imbros had a total population of 8,875. The same census also reported 7,254 people in Gökçeada town, and 1,621 in the remaining villages. The main industries of Imbros are fishing and tourism. The population is predominantly Turkish but there are still about 300 Greeks on Imbros; large numbers of Greeks have emigrated.
The island is noted for its
vineyardA vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture....
s and
wineWine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients. Wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast consumes...
production.
In mythology
According to the
Greek mythologyGreek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
, the palace of
ThetisSilver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus Silver-footed Thetis...
, mother of
AchillesIn Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy....
, king of
PhthiaFounded by Aiakos, grandfather of Achilles, it was the home of his father Peleus and his sea-nymph mother Thetis.In Crito, one of the dialogues written by Plato, while Socrates was condemned to death and awaiting his execution, he had a dream in which a woman told him that he would go to Phthia in...
, was situated between Imbros and
SamothraceSamothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing deme within the Evros Prefecture of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 . Its main industries are fishing and tourism. Resources on the island includes granite and basalt. ...
. The stables of the winged horses of
PoseidonIn Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon...
were said to lie between Imbros and Tenedos.
HomerHomer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey...
wrote:
- In the depths of the sea on the cliff
- Between Tenedos and craggy Imbros
- There is a cave, wide gaping
- Poseidon who made the earth tremble,
- stopped the horses there.
In antiquity
In classical antiquity, Imbros, like
LemnosLemnos or Limnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Greek prefecture of Lesbos and has a considerable area, about 477 km². Lemnos is mostly flat , but the west, and especially the northwest part, is rough and mountainous...
, was an Athenian
cleruchyA cleruchy in Hellenic Greece, was a specialized type of colony established by Athens. The term comes from the Greek word , klērouchos, literally "lot-holder"....
, a
colonyIn politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their...
whose settlers retained Athenian citizenship; although since the
Imbrians appear on the Athenian tribute lists, there may have been a division with the native population. The original inhabitants of Imbros were
PelasgiansThe name Pelasgians was used by some ancient Greek writers to refer to populations that preceded the Hellenes in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." In general, "Pelasgian" has come to mean more broadly all the autochthonous...
.
MiltiadesMiltiades or Miltiadis is a Greek name. Several historic persons have been called Miltiades .* Miltiades the Elder wealthy Athenian, and step-uncle of Miltiades the Younger...
conquered the island from Persia after the
battle of SalamisThe Battle of Salamis , was a naval battle fought between an Alliance of Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia in September 480 BC in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens...
; the colony was established about 450 BC, during the first Athenian empire, and was retained by Athens (with brief exceptions) for the next six centuries. It may have become independent under
Septimius SeverusLucius Septimius Severus was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 14 April, 193 until his death in 211. Severus was the first emperor of the troubled Severan dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of the Roman principate before the Crisis of the Third Century...
.
Between Turkey and Greece
Before and shortly after the
First World WarWorld War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
the population of Imbros was ethnically Greek, with Greeks making up approximately 97.5 percent of the islands population in 1927.
Because of their strategic position near the
DardanellesThe Dardanelles , formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with its counterpart the Bosporus. It is located at approximately...
, the western powers, particularly
BritainThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
, insisted at the end of the
Balkan WarsThe Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913. The First Balkan War broke out on 8 October 1912 when Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia , having large parts of their ethnic populations under Ottoman sovereignty, attacked the Ottoman Empire, terminating its five-century...
in 1913 that the island should be retained by the
Ottoman EmpireThe Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1, 1922 The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِیَّهِ عُثْمَانِیَّه Dawlet-il ʿAliyyat-il ʿOs̠māniyye, Modern Turkish:...
when the other Aegean islands were ceded to
GreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
.
In 1920, the
Treaty of SèvresThe Treaty of Sèvres was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with Germany before this treaty to annul the German concessions including the economic rights and enterprises. Also, France, Great Britain and Italy...
with the defeated
Ottoman EmpireThe Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1, 1922 The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِیَّهِ عُثْمَانِیَّه Dawlet-il ʿAliyyat-il ʿOs̠māniyye, Modern Turkish:...
granted the island to Greece. The Ottoman government, which signed but did not ratify the treaty, was overthrown by the new Turkish nationalist Government of
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkMustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President....
, based in Ankara. After the
Greco-Turkish WarThe Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, also called the War in Asia Minor or the Greek campaign of the Turkish War of Independence or The Asia Minor Catastrophe, was a series of military events occurring during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I between May 1919 and October 1922...
ended in Greek defeat in Anatolia, and the fall of
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and his Middle Eastern policies, the western powers agreed to the
Treaty of LausanneThe Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed by the Constantinople-based Ottoman government; as the consequence of the...
with the new Turkish Republic, in 1923. This treaty made the island part of Turkey; but it guaranteed a special autonomous administrative status on Imbros and Tenedos to accommodate the Greeks, and excluded them from the
population exchangeThe 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey was the first compulsory large-scale population exchange, or agreed mutual expulsion of the 20th century. It involved approximately 2 million people, most of whom were forcibly made refugees and de jure denaturalized from their homelands...
that took place between Greece and
TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
, due to their presence there as a majority.
However shortly after the legislation of "Civil Law" on 17 February 1926 (Medeni Kanun), the rights accorded to minorities in Turkey were revoked, in violation of the Lausanne Treaty.
Geography
Çınarlı : Çınarlı is the main town on Imbros, known as
Panaghia Balomeni (Παναγία Μπαλωμένη) in Greek. Most of the settlements on Imbros were given Turkish names in 1926. Çınarlı is in the middle of the island; there is a small airport under construction nearby.
Bademli köyü : Older Greek name is
Gliky (Γλυκύ). It is located to the northeast of the island, between Çınarlı town and Kaleköy/Kastro.
Dereköy : Older Greek name is
Schoinoudi (Σχοινούδι). It is located at the center of the west side of island. Due to the emigration of the Greek population (largely to New Zealand and the USA; some to Greece and Istanbul before the 1970s), Dereköy is empty today. However, many people return on every 15 August for the festival of the Virgin Mary.
Eşelek / Karaca köyü :
It is located at the southeast of the island. It is an agricultural area that produces fruit and vegetables.
Kaleköy : Older name is
Kastro (Κάστρο) (Latin and Greek for
castleA castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress, in that it describes a residence of a monarch or...
). Located on the north-eastern coast of island, there is an antique castle near the village. Kaleköy also has a small port which was constructed by the French Navy during the occupation in the First World War, and is now used for fishing-boats and yachts.
Şahinkaya köyü : It is located near Dereköy.
Şirinköy : It is located in the southwest of island.
Tepeköy : Older Greek name is
Agridia (Αγριδιά). It is located in the north of the island, and is home to the largest Greek population on the island.
Barba Yorgo is a well-known inhabitant of the island. An extinct volcano is located south of village which is the highest point of island.
Uğurlu köyü : It is located in the west of the island.
Yeni Bademli köyü : It is located at the center-northeast of island, near Bademli. It has many motels and pensions.
Yenimahalle : Older Greek name is Evlampio
(Ευλάμπιο). It is located near Çınarlı Town on the road to Kuzulimanı port.
Zeytinli köyü : Older Greek name is Aghios Theodoros (Άγιος Θεόδωρος). Demetrios Archontonis, known as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, was born there on 29 February 1940. It has a famous café where Madam Dibek (elderly Greek lady) used to serve her special Turkish/Greek style
coffeeTurkish coffee is coffee prepared by boiling finely powdered roast coffee beans in a pot , possibly with sugar, and serving it into a cup, where the dregs settle. The name describes the method of preparation, not the raw material; there is no special Turkish variety of the coffee bean...
which is prepared in a hand mortar. After she died, her husband is now continuing her legacy.
Others : Yeni Bademli köyü
, Eşelek / Karaca köyü
, Şahinkaya köyü
, Şirinköy
and Uğurlu köyü
were established after 1970.
Places to see
Aydıncık/Kefaloz (Kefalos) beach
: Best location for windsurfing
Kapıkaya (Stenos) beach
:
Kaşkaval peninsula / (Kaskaval): Scuba diving
Kuzulimanı (Haghios Kyrikas): Ferryport with 24-hour ferries to GeliboluGelibolu in modern Turkish, , is the name of a town and a district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula in the European part of Turkey. Gelibolu is well-known for sardine canning....
–KabatepeKabatepe, or Gaba Tepe, is a headland overlooking the northern Aegean Sea in what is now the Gallipoli Historic National Park, on the Gallipoli peninsula in northwestern Turkey....
port and ÇanakkaleÇanakkale is a town and seaport in Turkey, in Çanakkale Province, on the southern coast of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point....
port.
Mavikoy/Bluebay: The first national underwater park in Turkey. Scuba diving allowed for recreational purposes.
Marmaros beach: Also has a small waterfall.
Pınarbaşı (Spilya) beach: Longest (and most sandy) beach on the island.
The Greek population
The island was primarily inhabited by ethnic Greeks from ancient times through to approximately the middle of the twentieth century. Data dating from 1922 taken under Greek rule and 1927 data taken under Turkish rule showed a strong majority of Greek inhabitants on Imbros, and the
Greek Orthodox ChurchThe Greek Orthodox Church is the body of several churches within the larger communion of the Orthodox Church, sharing a common cultural tradition and whose liturgy is traditionally conducted in Koine Greek, the original language of the New Testament....
had a strong presence on the island.
Article 14 of the
Treaty of LausanneThe Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed by the Constantinople-based Ottoman government; as the consequence of the...
(1923) exempted Imbros and Tenedos from the large-scale population exchange that took place between Greece and Turkey, and required Turkey to accommodate the local Greek majority and their rights:
The islands of Imbros and Tenedos, remaining under Turkish sovereignty, shall enjoy a special administrative organisation composed of local elements and furnishing every guarantee for the native non-Moslem population insofar as concerns local administration and the protection of persons and property. The maintenance of order will be assured therein by a police force recruited from amongst the local population by the local administration above provided for and placed under its orders.
Thus, under the Turkish Republic, the islands were to be largely autonomous and self-governing, with their own police force. This provision was not guaranteed by anything more than the faith of the Treaty.
Intercommunal relations
The Greek émigrés from Turkey assert numerous violations of the religious, linguistic, and economic rights guaranteed as matters of international concern by the Treaty, including freedom of the Orthodox religion and the right to practice the professions. Leaders of the Greek community in Turkey "voluntarily waived" these rights in 1926; but the Treaty provides (Article 44) that these rights can only be modified by the consent of the majority of the Council of League of Nations. The émigrés assert that the signatures to the waivers were obtained by orders of the police, and that Avrilios Spatharis and Savvas Apostologlou, who refused to sign, were imprisoned. The Greek government appealed this action to the Council and was upheld, but Turkey has not complied.
In addition, the following grievances apply particularly to Imbros:
- In 1923, Turkey dismissed the elected government of the island, and installed mainlanders. 1500 Imbriots who had taken refuge from the Turkish War of Independence
The Turkish War of Independence is the political and military resistance developed by Turkish Nationalists to the Allied partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in World War I...
on LemnosLemnos or Limnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Greek prefecture of Lesbos and has a considerable area, about 477 km². Lemnos is mostly flat , but the west, and especially the northwest part, is rough and mountainous...
and in Thessalonica were denied the right to return, as undesirables.
- In 1927, the system of local administration on Imbros was abolished, and the Greek schools closed. In 1952-3, the Greek Imbriots were permitted to build new ones, closed again in 1964.
- In 1943, Turkey arrested the Metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos with other Orthodox clerics. They also confiscated the lands on Imbros belonging to the monasteries of Great Lavra
This is the monastery on Mount Athos. For the monastery associated with Saint Sabbas, see Mar Saba.The Monastery of Great Lavra is the first monastery built on Mount Athos. It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of 160 metres...
and KoutloumousiouKoutloumousiou monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery ranks sixth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries....
on Mount AthosMount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia, of northern Greece, called in Greek Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain". In Classical times, the peninsula was called Aktí...
, expelled the tenants, and installed settlers; when the Mayor of Imbros and four village elders protested, they were arrested and sent to the mainland.
- Between 1964 and 1984, almost all the usable land on Imbros had been expropriated, for inadequate compensation, for an army camp, a minimum-security prison, reforestation projects, a dam project, and a national park.
- Nicholas Palaiopoulos, a town councilor, was arrested and imprisoned in 1966 for complaining to the Greek Ambassador on the latter's visit to Imbros; he, together with the Mayor of Imbros and 20 others, was imprisoned again in 1974.
- A crime wave hit Imbros since 1964; the old Cathedral at Kastro (Kaleköy) was desecrated on the night of the Turkish landing on Cyprus in 1974; the present Cathedral was looted in March 1993; there have been a number of rapes and murders, officially blamed on convicts and soldiers, but none of them has been solved.
- In July 1993, the Turkish National Security began a program to settle mainland Turks on Imbros (and Tenedos).
All of these events have led to the Greeks emigrating from both islands. Before 1964, the population of Imbros was 7000 Greeks, and 200 mainland Turkish officials; by 1970 the Greeks were a minority at 40% of the population, and there remains only a very small Greek community on Imbros today, comprising several hundred mostly elderly people. Most of the former Greeks of Imbros and Tenedos are in
diasporaA diaspora is any movement of a population sharing common ethnic identity. While refugees may or may not ultimately settle in a new geographic location, the term diaspora refers to a permanently displaced and relocated collective.Diasporic cultural development often assumes a different course from...
in Greece, the
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, and
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.
Population change in Imbros
| Town & Villages |
1927 |
1970 |
1975 |
1980 |
1985 |
1990 |
1997 |
2000 |
| Çınarlı (Panaghia Balomeni) |
- |
- |
3578 |
615 |
3806 |
342 |
4251 |
216 |
767 |
70 |
721 |
40 |
553 |
26 |
503 |
29 |
| Bademli (Gliky) |
- |
- |
66 |
144 |
1 |
57 |
40 |
1 |
13 |
34 |
29 |
22 |
15 |
15 |
15 |
13 |
| Dereköy (Shinudy) |
- |
- |
73 |
672 |
391 |
378 |
319 |
214 |
380 |
106 |
99 |
68 |
82 |
40 |
68 |
42 |
| Eşelek |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
152 |
- |
| Fatih |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
3962 |
45 |
4284 |
32 |
4135 |
21 |
4180 |
25 |
| Kaleköy (Kastro) |
- |
- |
38 |
36 |
24 |
- |
- |
128 |
94 |
- |
105 |
- |
90 |
- |
89 |
- |
| Şahinkaya |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
168 |
- |
107 |
- |
86 |
- |
| Şirinköy |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
189 |
- |
| Tepeköy (Agridia) |
- |
- |
3 |
504 |
4 |
273 |
2 |
193 |
1 |
110 |
75 |
2 |
2 |
39 |
2 |
42 |
| Uğurlu |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
460 |
- |
490 |
- |
466 |
- |
401 |
- |
| Yenibademli |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
416 |
- |
660 |
- |
628 |
- |
581 |
- |
| Yenimahalle (Evlampio) |
- |
- |
182 |
143 |
162 |
121 |
231 |
81 |
359 |
59 |
970 |
27 |
2240 |
25 |
2362 |
27 |
| Zeytinli (Aghios Theodoros) |
- |
- |
30 |
507 |
15 |
369 |
36 |
235 |
72 |
162 |
25 |
130 |
12 |
82 |
12 |
76 |
| TOTAL |
157 |
6555 |
3970 |
2621 |
4403 |
1540 |
4879 |
1068 |
6524 |
586 |
7626 |
321 |
8330 |
248 |
8640 |
254 |
Ref:
Gökçeada Municipality official page
Ref:
Changes in the demographic characteristics of Gökçeada
Notable people from Gökçeada (Imbros)
- Sheikh Mustafa Ruhi Efendi
Sheikh Mustafa Ruhi Efendi was a religious and political leader in the Balkans during the Ottoman period. He was based in the city of Kalkandelen,...
(1800-1893), religious (Naqshbandi) and political leader in the Balkans during the Ottoman period.
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to in English speaking countries as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the world's second largest Christian communion, estimated to number 225 million members...
.
- Erol Saygı; Turkish academician. (Saygı, E., (1985). Gökçeada: Imbros. Motif Basım Ltd. Şti., Istanbul.)
- Ali Dağlı; the only shipowner who gave service to transport people and goods from mainland Turkey to Imbros, before the construction of the Kuzulimanı Port.
- Namık ?; cinematographer, who ran for many years, between the 1960s and the 1980s, a small cinema saloon, with the help of his Greek wife.
- Stavros Stavropoulos; Mayor, 1965-1970.
See also
- Treaty of Lausanne
The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed by the Constantinople-based Ottoman government; as the consequence of the...
- Greco-Turkish relations
Greek-Turkish relations have been marked by alternating periods of mutual hostility and reconciliation ever since Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821...
- Treaty of Sèvres
The Treaty of Sèvres was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with Germany before this treaty to annul the German concessions including the economic rights and enterprises. Also, France, Great Britain and Italy...
- Tenedos
Tenedos, officially referred to as Bozcaada in Turkey is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province in Turkey. Bozcaada/Tenedos has a population of about 2,500. The main industries are fishing and tourism. The island has been famous for its grapes,...
- List of Greek countries and regions
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