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Native name: Gökçeada İmroz | |
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 Satellite view of Gökçeada in 2016 | |
  Imbros  Imbros  Imbros | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Aegean Sea |
| Coordinates | 40°09′39″N 25°50′40″E / 40.16083°N 25.84444°E |
| Area | 286.8 km2 (110.7 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 673 m (2208 ft) |
| Highest point | İlyas Dağ (Προφήτης Ηλίας Profitis Ilias) |
| Administration | |
Turkey | |
| District | Gökçeada District |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 10,348 (2022)[1] |
Imbros (Greek: Ίμβρος, romanized: Ímvros;[2] Turkish: İmroz; Ottoman Turkish: ايمروز), officially Gökçeada (lit. 'Heavenly Island') since 29 July 1970,[3][4] is the largest island of Turkey, located in Çanakkale Province. It is located in the north-northeastern Aegean Sea, at the entrance of Saros Bay, and has the westernmost point of Turkey (Cape İncirburnu). Imbros has an area of 286.8 km2 (110.7 sq mi),[5] and has some wooded areas.[6]
As of 2022, the island-district of Gökçeada has a population of 10,348.[1] The main industries of Imbros are fishing and tourism. By the end of the 20th century, the island was predominantly inhabited by settlers from the Turkish mainland that mostly arrived after 1960,[7] with the indigenous Greek population having declined to about 300 persons by the start of the 21st century.[8]
Historically, the island was primarily inhabited by ethnic Greeks[3] since the Iron Age until approximately the 1960s, when many were forced to emigrate to Greece as well as to Western Europe, the United States and Australia, due to a campaign of discrimination and ethnic cleansing sponsored by the governments of İsmet İnönü.[3][8][9][10] The Greek Imbriot diaspora is thought to number around 15,000 globally and in Turkey, and has a strong special Imbrian identity.[8][7] The 2010s saw a tentative revitalisation of the island's remaining Greek community.[11]
- ^ a b "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
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Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Imbros". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ a b c Alexis Alexandris, "The Identity Issue of The Minorities in Greece And Turkey", in Hirschon, Renée (ed.), Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey, Berghahn Books, 2003, p. 120
- ^ "Hüzün Adası: İmroz" Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Yeniçağ, 12 July 2007
- ^ "Turkey's Statistical Yearbook 2013" (PDF) (in Turkish and English). Turkish Statistical Institute. 2014. p. 7.
- ^ "Gökçeada", from Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Hurriyet Daily News. "Greeks look to revive identity on Gökçeada", 22 August 2011. [1] Archived 16 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mohammadi, A., Ehteshami, A. "Iran and Eurasia" Garnet&Ithaca Press, 2000, 221 pages. p. 192 [2]
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