Gökçeada
Mountains of Imbros, with the highest mountain, the extinct cone-shaped volcano İlyas Dağ on the right
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 Gökçeada/Imbros
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| Location | Aegean Sea |
| Coordinates | 40°09′39″N 25°50′40″E / 40.16083°N 25.84444°ECoordinates: 40°09′39″N 25°50′40″E / 40.16083°N 25.84444°E |
| Area | 279 km2 (108 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 673 m (2,208 ft) |
| Highest point | İlyas Dağ |
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Turkey
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| District | Gökçeada District |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 8,644 (2014) |
Imbros or İmroz, officially changed to Gökçeada since 29 July 1970, (older name in Turkish: İmroz; Greek: Ίμβρος Imvros), is the largest island of Turkey and the seat of Gökçeada District of Çanakkale Province. It is located in the Aegean Sea, at the entrance of Saros Bay and is also the westernmost point of Turkey (Cape İncirburnu). Imbros has an area of 279 km2 (108 sq mi) and contains some wooded areas.
According to the 2014 census, the island-district of Gökçeada has a population of 8,644. The main industries of Imbros are fishing and tourism. Today the island is predominantly inhabited by settlers from the Turkish mainland that mostly arrived there after 1960, but from the indigenous population about 300 Greeks are still remaining, most of them elderly, but including some families with children. The island was primarily inhabited by ethnic Greeks from ancient times through to approximately the 1960s, when many emigrated to Greece, western Europe, the United States and Australia, due to a campaign of state-sponsored discrimination. The Greek Imbriot diaspora is thought to number some 15,000.
According to Greek mythology, the palace of Thetis, mother of Achilles, king of Phthia, was situated between Imbros and Samothrace.
The stables of the winged horses of Poseidon were said to lie between Imbros and Tenedos.
Eëtion, a lord of or ruler over the island of Imbros is also mentioned in the Iliad. He buys Priam's captured son Lycaon and restores him to his father. Homer mention Imbros in the Iliad in other occasions too.
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