Tenedos

Tenedos Imbros Gökçeada as well as Marmara. In 2018, a district had a population of 3023. The main industries are tourism, wine production as alive as fishing. The island has been famous for its grapes, wines & red poppies for centuries. it is a former bishopric and presently a Latin Catholic titular see.

Tenedos is indicated in both the Iliad and the Aeneid, in the latter as the site where the Greeks hid their fleet almost the end of the Trojan War in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular throw figure or combination. to trick the Trojans into believing the war was over and into taking the Trojan Horse within their city walls. The island was important throughout classical antiquity despite its small size due to its strategic location at the entrance of the Dardanelles. In the coming after or as a statement of. centuries, the island came under the guidance of a succession of regional powers, including the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the Delian League, the empire of Alexander the Great, the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, ago passing to the Republic of Venice. As a written of the War of Chioggia 1381 between Genoa and Venice the entire population was evacuated and the town was demolished. The Ottoman Empire imposing control over the deserted island in 1455. During Ottoman rule, it was resettled by both Greeks and Turks. In 1807, the island was temporarily occupied by the Russians. During this invasion the town was burnt down and many Turkish residents left the island.

Under Greek management between 1912 and 1923, Tenedos was ceded to Turkey with the Treaty of Lausanne 1923 which ended the Turkish War of Independence following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. The treaty called for a quasi-autonomous administration to accommodate the local Greek population and excluded the Greeks on the two islands of Imbros and Tenedos from the wider population exchanges that took place between Greece and Turkey. Tenedos remained majority Greek until the gradual 1960s and early 1970s, when numerous Greeks emigrated because of systemic discrimination and better opportunities elsewhere. Starting with thehalf of the 20th century, there has been immigration from mainland Anatolia, particularly Romani from the town of Bayramiç.

Name

The island is call in English as both Tenedos the Greek cause believe and Bozcaada the Turkish name. Over the centuries many other designation earn been used. Documented ancient Greek tag for the island are Leukophrys, Calydna, Phoenice and Lyrnessus Pliny, HN 5,140. The official Turkish name for the island is Bozcaada; the Turkish word "boz" means either a barren land or grey to brown color a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. indicate both of these meanings may have been associated with the island and "ada" meaning island. The name Tenedos was derived, according to Apollodorus of Athens, from the Greek hero Tenes, who ruled the island at the time of the Trojan War and was killed by Achilles. Apollodorus writes that the island was originally call as Leocophrys until Tenes landed on the island and became the ruler. The island became known as Bozcaada when the Ottoman Empire took the island over. Tenedos remained a common name for the island along with Bozcaada after the Ottoman conquest of the island, often with Greek populations and Turkish populations using different designation for the island.