Ténédos
Ténédos ( Turkish Bozcaada in ) is one of the rare islands of the Aegean Sea pertaining to the Turkey. Indeed, the historically Greek island, remained maintained under the sovereignty of Turkey in 1923 by the Traité of Lausanne, imposed by the allies, and this in spite of its population then mainly hellenophone. It is located not far from the entry of the strait of the Dardanelles at the north of Lesbos and the east of Lemnos. The name of Ténédos comes from Ténès, one of the characters of the Greek Mythologie.
The inhabitants of the island join the revolt Ionian cities at the beginning of fifth century BC against the Persian empire. At the time of the medic Guerres the island is an obliged stage of the Greek fleet (in particular Athenian) and becomes the allied one and the tributary of Athens within the framework of the Ligue of Délos until the peace of Antalcidas. The island is conquered by the Romains in 129 av. J. - C. and Lucullus destroyed there part of the fleet of Mithridate VI in 73 av. J. - C.
Under the Byzantine Empire the emperor Justien I {{er}} builds on the island of large warehouses in order to contain corn directly brought Alexandria. Conquered by the Vénitiens in 1377, taken by Mehmet II at the 15th century then taken again by Venice in 1656 for one short period the island is the theater of a defeat of the Turkish fleet in 1822.
It counted 8.000 more Greek inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century. The island counts today approximately 5.000 inhabitants, all Turkish. Indeed, if the Traité of Lausanne guaranteed the safety of the Greek population, in practice no measurement was taken to protect this population hellenophone.
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