Bozcaada, Ã‡anakkale

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Bozcaada ( Tenedos in Greek Τένεδος ) is an island in the northeast Aegean Sea or in the Thracian Sea. The island is now a district of the Turkish province of Çanakkale. It is about 43 km ².

Geography

Bozcaada is about 4 nautical miles from the port Yükyeri in Geyikli located on the Anatolian mainland. The highest elevation of the island is the hill Göztepe with a height of 192 meters.

For Bozcaada district next to the island of Bozcaada, including the small island group Karayer Adalari with the islands Tavşan, Yilan, Orak and Pırasa, eight to ten kilometers north-east.

History

Bozcaada was settled around 3000 BC.

In the described by Homer fabled Trojan War, the Greek warriors hidden on the island of Tenedos, after they had set up the wooden "Trojan Horse" the gates of Troy and leave the Troad in appearance towards Greece. On Tenedos they waited until night to return secretly to conquer Troy.

The Greek hero Odysseus gave the Cyclops Polyphemus ' black Trojan " wine, which probably originated from the island of Tenedos ( Bozcaada ).

From 493 BC to the island belonged to the Persian Empire. 334 BC it was conquered by the troops of Alexander the Great.

The island fell in the year 146 BC to the Roman Empire. Around the middle of the 13th century fought the Byzantine Empire with the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa for control of the island; subsequently this was depopulated for about a century.

In 1455 the island was conquered by the troops of Mehmed II and part of the Ottoman Empire.

Bozcaada was awarded demilitarized and Turkey together with GOKCEADA after the Greco- Turkish War 1922/23, the Treaty of Lausanne. The Treaty of Lausanne, Greece and Turkey agreed on a mutual exchange of populations, one of the exceptions to this forced resettlement concerned the Greeks Bozcaadas. Most Greeks left the island then, but returned within a few years mostly back. Only in the course of "ethnic cleansing policy " Turkey in the 1950s, the majority of the Greek population was expelled.

Economy

From Antiquity to the Early Modern Tenedos was an important port at the entrance of the Dardanelles. Moreover, testified since at least the 6th century BC viticulture on the island. Today, tourism is the most important industry of the island, next are wind power generation, fishing and cultivation of poppies important economic factors of the island.

Attractions

The fort in the harbor of the island, the Genoese, Venetians and Byzantines should have served, is of unknown origin. In its present form it was built by Mehmet II and 1703-1706, 1714-1726 and in 1815 renovated in particular. Built in 1867 Greek Orthodox church stands on the foundation of a church to have been built by Venetians.