Paşalimanı Island ( tr, Paşalimanı Adası), formerly Halone ( gr, Ἁλώνη),Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §B165.1
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island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

in the southern Sea of Marmara in

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. The island is the fourth biggest island (21.3 km2) of Turkey and administratively belongs to the

Erdek Erdek (formerly known as ''Artàke'', el, Αρτάκη) is a town and district of Balıkesir Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. The population was 34,000 in 2010. Located on the Kapıdağ Peninsula, on the north coast of the Gulf of Er ...

town of Balikesir Province in northwestern Turkey. The island has five small villages and has 962 population in total. Paşalimanı Island is also part of the

Marmara Archipelago Marmara Archipelago (Turkish; Marmara Takimadaları) is a group of islands located in the South of the Sea of Marmara, belonging to the Balıkesir Province of Turkey. The Marmara Islands consist of four inhabited and 17 uninhabited islands. The ar ...

along with three other islands Marmara,

Avşa Avşa Island ( tr, Avşa Adası) or Türkeli is a Turkish island in the southern Sea of Marmara with an area of about . It was the classical and Byzantine Aphousia ( el, Ἀφουσία or Ἀφησιά) and was a place of exile during the Byzant ...

and Ekinlik.

History

Paşalimani Island was first inhabited during the

Chalcolithic The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin '' aeneus'' "of copper"), is an archaeological period characterized by regular ...

age same as the neighbouring islands of Avşa and Marmara. According to Hittite sources the area was under the rule of

Troy Troy ( el, Τροία and Latin: Troia, Hittite language, Hittite: 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 ''Truwiša'') or Ilion ( el, Ίλιον and Latin: Ilium, Hittite language, Hittite: 𒃾𒇻𒊭 ''Wiluša'') was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in prese ...

( Wilusa) during 1300s BC. In 844 BC Ionian colonizers from

Miletus Miletus (; gr, Μῑ́λητος, Mī́lētos; Hittite transcription ''Millawanda'' or ''Milawata'' (exonyms); la, Mīlētus; tr, Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in a ...

occupied the area and they were the first Greek-speaking inhabitants. In 493 BC the island was ravaged by Phoenicians since the islanders were against the Persian invasions. Consequently new Ionian settlers brought and settled from Miletus and

Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate ...

island. Halonia island was under Byzantine rule until the

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captured the archipelago in 15th century. During the Ottoman period, until 1923

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and Turks lived together in peace. In 1923

and

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agreed to exchange the population and Greek-speaking people of the island left. Today the local people of the island are originally from Greece,

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and

Black Sea Region The Black Sea Region ( tr, Karadeniz Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The largest city in the region is Samsun. Other big cities are Trabzon, Ordu, Tokat, Giresun, Rize, Amasya and Sinop. It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the ...

of Turkey.

Climate

Paşalimanı Island has predominantly

Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

, at the same time some effects of the Black Sea climate are observed. It gets more rainfall in the summer months comparing to the Mediterranean climate. During the winter the island may also gets some snow from time to time due to the cold weather from the north.

Villages and population

Paşalimanı Island has five villages and does not have any administrative central town. Contrary to the other surrounding islands, Paşalimanı island belongs to

Province, not to Marmara, the central town of the archipelago. * Harmanlı ( gr, Αλώνια (Alonia or Halonia)); 285 pop. * Paşalimanı ( gr, Πασά Λιμάνι (Pasa Limani)); 180 pop. * Poyrazlı ( gr, Βώρυ (Vori)); 184 pop. * Balıklı ( gr, Σκοπιά (Skopia)); 159 pop. * Tuzla ( gr, Χουχλιά (Huhlia)); 154 pop.

References

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Governorship of Balıkesir

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History

Climate

Villages and population

See also

References

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