Uzunada or Uzun ada (literally "long island") is an island situated at the entry of the

Gulf of İzmir The Gulf of İzmir ( tr, İzmir Körfezi), formerly known as the Gulf of Smyrna, is a gulf on the Aegean Sea, with its inlet between the Karaburun Peninsula and the mainland area of Foça. It is in length by in breadth, with an excellent ancho ...

on the west coast of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. It is situated between the Karaburun Peninsula, Turkey in the west, and the district of

Foça Foça is a town and district in Turkey's İzmir Province, on the Aegean coast. The town of Foça is situated at about northwest of İzmir's city center. The district also has a township with its own municipality named Yenifoça (literally ''"Ne ...

in the east. Stretching over a length of c. in north-south direction, it is Turkey's fourth largest island, and its third largest in the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans ...

. The island has been called by many names. Its

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

name was ''Drymoussa'' (Δρυμούσσα), and it is also known under its later Greek names of ''Makronisi'' ("long island") or ''Englezonisi'' ("Englishmen's island"),(16 Nov 2012)
UZUNADA KİMİN?
'' Yeni Asır'' (article in Turkish re island ownership, notes prior name of "Englezonisi (İngilizlerin adası)")US GeoNames database
/ref> but more likely is that this name is derived from the word ''Enclazomenisi'' from ancient city Clazomenae at the opposite coast. To its south are several smaller islets, including Yassıca. It has also been called "Chustan Island" (or Keustan).Mediterranean Pilot, Volume 4
pp. 191-92 (4th ed. 1908) "Uzunada" is also the name of several other, smaller islets along the Turkish Aegean coast. Uzunada is currently closed to settlements due to military activities.

History

Thucydides Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...

briefly mentions Drymoussa as a location where some ships of Astyochus put in for eight days during a period of high winds in the 20th year of the Peloponnesian War.Thucydides, 8.31
(" He was himself carried to Phocaea and Cymè, and the remainder of the fleet put into the islands, Marathussa, Pelè, and Drymussa, which lie off Clazomenae. There, being detained eight days by the weather, they spoiled and destroyed part of the property of the Clazomenians which had been deposited in the islands") After the

Treaty of Apamea The Treaty of Apamea was a peace treaty conducted in 188 BC between the Roman Republic and Antiochus III, ruler of the Seleucid Empire. It ended the Roman–Seleucid War. The treaty took place after Roman victories at the Battle of Thermopylae ...

was concluded in 188 B.C., the city of Clazomenae was awarded the island.A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Volume 1
p. 632 (1872) Pinkerton, John
A general collection of ... voyages and travels, Vol. X
p. 653 (1811)Bowyer, W
A Description of the East and Some Other Countries, Vol. 2, Part 2
p. 41 (1745) Despite claims of ownership of an English family dating from the mid-19th century, by 1914 there were about 2,000

Ottoman Greeks Ottoman Greeks ( el, Ρωμιοί; tr, Osmanlı Rumları) were ethnic Greeks who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922), much of which is in modern Turkey. Ottoman Greeks were Greek Orthodox Christians who belonged to the Rum Millet (''Millet ...

living on the island.Turkish Island Romance
Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LI, Issue 5241, 10 December 1926, Page 1 (reprinted from The London Times) Stamp Long Island 1916 1 2d on 20pa

During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, the British Mediterranean Fleet occupied the island (referred to as "Chustan") in 1916, where they also issued some rare stamps.Stamp Collectors will be Kept Busy
''The Tomahawk'' (date?)
PHILATELIC EXPERTS, Retrieved 22 May 2015 After the

population exchange between Greece and Turkey The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I Antallagí, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at ...

, most of the island's former inhabitants settled in Nea Ionia, Magnesia.

References

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Small Islands in the Near East
{{Aegean Sea Islands of Turkey North Aegean islands Islands of İzmir Province Gulf of İzmir Important Bird Areas of Turkey