Gokceada
| Gökçeada (Ímvros / Ímbros) |
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| Waters | Thracian Sea | |
| Archipelago | Saruhan Adaları (Eastern Sporades) | |
| Geographical location | 40 ° 10 ′ N , 25 ° 51 ′ E | |
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| length | 29.5 km | |
| width | 13 km | |
| surface | 286.84 km² | |
| Highest elevation | İlyas Dağ 673 m |
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| Residents | 9783 (2018) 34 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Gokceada | |
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Gökçeada , until July 29, 1970 İmroz ( Greek Ίμβρος Ímvros / Ímbros , German also: Imbros ) is an Aegean island in the Turkish province of Çanakkale . It includes the westernmost land mass of Turkey in Cape Avlaka . Capital of the island is the town of Gökçeada , the same county seat of the same size as identical with the island district is.
geography
The island is strategically located at the entrance to the Dardanelles in the Thracian Sea , 16 km west of the Gallipoli peninsula and around 30 kilometers northwest of Troy . It is 13 km wide and 30 km long. The island had 8,644 inhabitants in 2014. The highest mountain is the 673 meter high extinct volcano İlyas Dağ.
geology
Gökçeada is located on the Anatolian plate immediately on the northern edge of the plate boundary to the Eurasian plate . Major earthquakes occurred along the resulting transform fault and represent a major risk for the island. Small, noticeable earthquakes are nothing unusual in Gökçeada. On May 24, 2014 Gökçeada was hit by a violent earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 M w . 30 people were injured and some old houses were damaged .
climate
The island has a Mediterranean climate with warm dry summers and humid cool winters. Rain falls between May and August in exceptional cases. Usually cold weather and rain can be expected in the first half of September. Snow and ground frost are not uncommon in winter.
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Average monthly temperatures for Gökçeada
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Flora and fauna
Gökçeada is particularly rich in crops. There are large olive groves and smaller pine stands .
education
There are three primary schools on the island with a total of 823 students. In the middle schools there are 605 students. 106 teachers are employed in schools on the island. There are also three grammar schools and a vocational college. A library with 11,081 books is run by three employees on Gökçeada. The literacy rate is 95 percent.
After nearly 50 years, a private Greek primary school reopened in September 2013, teaching only three students. The school was founded in 1951 and closed by the Turkish state in 1964. In 2015, for the first time since 1964, a Greek grammar school and lyceum, housed in one building, were reopened, in which a total of only 11 students are taught.
History and politics
The island, on which the oldest known cult site of Hermes is located, has been inhabited since ancient times. During the time of the Roman Empire it belonged to the province of Thracia - at that time still under its Greek name Imbros. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Byzantine Empire , in the Renaissance (even before the fall of Constantinople in 1453) to the Ottoman Empire . As part of the province of Eastern Thrace , what was then Imbros with the neighboring island of Bozcaada briefly belonged to Greece between 1919 and 1923 . After the Greco-Turkish War , it was separated from Greece in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and, like Bozcaada, demilitarized. In the Treaty of Lausanne, Greece and Turkey agreed on a reciprocal population exchange , one of the exceptions to this forced relocation concerned the Greeks Gökçeadas.
In Article 14 of the treaty the Greeks of the islands were granted a status of autonomy . Gökçeada was supposed to be under Turkish sovereignty , but it was to be managed by an independent administration that was also to independently manage the island's police force. However, it never came to that. Because of the worsening of the Cyprus conflict , from 1964 onwards there were reprisals against the Greek population (e.g. closing of all Greek schools), so that the proportion of the Greek population fell to a few hundred inhabitants. There has been a recovery in recent years as many islanders emigrated to renovate their property and at least spend the summer there.
Sons and daughters of the island
- Bartholomeos I (born February 29, 1940 ) Patriarch of Constantinople , Metropolitan of Chalcedon
- Nikolaos P. Andriotis (1906–1976), Greek linguist and neo-Greekist
- Critobulus of Imbros (around 1400/10 - after 1468), Byzantine historian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexis Alexandris: The Identity Issue of The Minorities In Greece And Turkey. in Renée Hirschon (Ed.): Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey. Berghahn Books, 2003, p. 120
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento February 10, 2015 on WebCite ), accessed February 10, 2015
- ↑ İstanbul ve Civarının Deprem Etkinliğinin Sürekli İzlenmesi Projesi - Marmara Bölgesi . Deprem.ibb.gov.tr. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 14, 2016. (Turkish)
- ↑ Harmful earthquakes in Greece / Turkey (Aegean Sea) - at least 324 injured + a lot of damage . Erdqueben-Report.com. May 24, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ↑ M6.9 - 19km S of Kamariotissa, Greece . United States Geological Survey . May 24, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ↑ Education on Gökçeada ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on gokceada.gov.tr, accessed on July 29, 2008 (official website of the district administration)
- ↑ Πρώτο κουδούνι στο γυμνάσιο Ιμβρου (Greek)
- ↑ Gustav Leue: 1925. Once again The Akrosticha in The Periegese Des Dionysios. Hermes 60 (3): 367-368, p. 367, JSTOR 4473967 .
literature
- Nikolaos P. Andriotis: Περί του γλωσσικού ιδιώματος της Ίμβρου. Ελεύθερη Σκέψις, Athens 1996. - (“About the dialect of Imbros”).
