2006-09-11 13:36:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Imbros is a Turkish island in the Aegean, at the southern end of the Thracian Chersonese peninsula. It forms, with Samothrace, about 17 m. distant, a caza (or canton) in the sanjak of Leinnos and province of the Archipelago Isles. Herodotus (v. 26) mentions it as an abode of the historic Pelasgians.
It was, like Samothrace, a seat of the worship of the Cabeiri. The island is now the seat of a Greek bishopric. There is communication with the mainland by occasional vessels. The island is of great fertility--wheat, oats, barley, olives, sesame and valonia being the principal products, in addition to a variety of fruits.
2006-09-11 14:38:46 · answer #1 · answered by atwil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Imbros, now officially Gökçeada, is an island in the Aegean Sea, part of Ãanakkale Province in Turkey.
It has a population of about 8,000. Fishing and tourismare the main industries. The population is mostly Turkish but there are still about 300 Greeks on Imbros and about 30 on Tenedos.
The original inhabitants of Imbros were Pelasgians. Miltiades conquered the island from Persia after the battle of Salamis; 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 Severus.
Imbros is noted for the wineyards and the wine produced.
2006-09-12 00:47:56 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gökçeada (gök'chÄädä') , Ä°mroz (Émrôz') or Imbros (Äm'brÅs) , island (1990 pop. 7,948), 108 sq mi (280 sq km), NW Turkey, in the Aegean Sea, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. Grain and beans are grown there. The majority of the population is Greek.
2006-09-12 10:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Imroz [Imbros], Island, Ottomon Empire, now Gokceada, Turkey
2006-09-12 09:32:59 · answer #4 · answered by Britannica Knowledge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋