Island in Turkey
38°30′16″N
26°42′53″E
/
38.50444°N 26.71472°E
/
38.50444; 26.71472
Map of Karaburun Peninsula at the western end of Turkey. Uzunada is the island located left of the notation ?zmir Gulf
Uzunada
or
Uzun ada
(literally "long island") is an island situated at the entry of the
Gulf of ?zmir
on the west coast of
Turkey
. Its area is 26.8 km
2
(10 sq mi).
[1]
It is situated between the
Karaburun Peninsula, Turkey
in the west, and the district of
Foca
in the east. Stretching over a length of c. 9 kilometres (6 miles) in north-south direction, it is Turkey's fourth largest island, and its third largest in the
Aegean Sea
.
[1]
The island has been called by many names. Its
ancient Greek
name was
Drymoussa
(Δρυμο?σσα), and it is also known under its later Greek names of
Makronisi
("long island") or
Englezonisi
("Englishmen's island"),
[2]
[3]
but more likely is that this name is derived from the word
Enclazomenisi
from ancient city
Clazomenae
at the opposite coast. To its south are several smaller islets, including
Yassıca
. It has also been called "Chustan Island" (or Keustan).
[4]
"Uzunada" is also the name of several other, smaller islets along the Turkish Aegean coast.
[3]
Uzunada is currently closed to settlements due to military activities.
History
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Thucydides
briefly mentions Drymoussa as a location where some ships of the
Spartan Navarch
Astyochus
put in for eight days during a period of high winds in the 20th year of the
Peloponnesian War
.
[5]
After the
Treaty of Apamea
was concluded in 188 B.C., the city of
Clazomenae
was awarded the island.
[6]
[7]
[8]
Despite claims of ownership of an English family dating from the mid-19th century, by 1914 there were about 2,000
Ottoman Greeks
living on the island.
[9]
Stamp issued for the British Occupation of Uzunada, Ottoman Empire, 1916
During
World War I
, the British
Mediterranean Fleet
occupied the island (referred to as "Chustan") in 1916, where they also issued some rare stamps.
[10]
[11]
After the
population exchange between Greece and Turkey
, most of the island's former inhabitants settled in
Nea Ionia, Magnesia
.
[12]
References
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- ^
a
b
"Turkey's Statistical Yearbook 2013"
(PDF)
(in Turkish and English).
Turkish Statistical Institute
. 2014. p. 7.
- ^
(16 Nov 2012).
UZUNADA K?M?N?
,
Yeni Asır
(article in Turkish re island ownership, notes prior name of "Englezonisi (?ngilizlerin adası)")
- ^
a
b
US GeoNames database
- ^
Mediterranean Pilot, Volume 4
, pp. 191-92 (4th ed. 1908)
- ^
Thucydides, 8.31
(" He was himself carried to Phocaea and Cyme, and the remainder of the fleet put into the islands, Marathussa, Pele, and Drymussa, which lie off Clazomenae. There, being detained eight days by the weather, they spoiled and destroyed part of the property of the Clazomenians which had been deposited in the islands")
- ^
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Volume 1
, p. 632 (1872)
- ^
Pinkerton, John
.
A general collection of ... voyages and travels, Vol. X
, p. 653 (1811)
- ^
Bowyer, W.
A Description of the East and Some Other Countries, Vol. 2, Part 2
, p. 41 (1745)
- ^
Turkish Island Romance
, Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LI, Issue 5241, 10 December 1926, Page 1 (reprinted from The London Times)
- ^
Stamp Collectors will be Kept Busy
,
The Tomahawk
(date?)
- ^
SMALL ISLANDS IN THE NEAR EAST
, PHILATELIC EXPERTS, Retrieved 22 May 2015
- ^
"Εγγλεζον?σι, πολιτιστικ?? σ?λλογο? Ν?α? Ιων?α? Μαγνησ?α?"
. Archived from
the original
on 2013-07-16
. Retrieved
2011-08-12
.
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