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Encyclopedia Britannica



IMBROS

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 331 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IMBROS , a Turkish
island
  in the
Aegean
 , at the southern end of the Thracian Chersonese peninsula. It forms with Samothrace, about 17 M. distant, a caza (or
canton
 ) in the sanjak of Lemnos and province of the Archipelago Isles.
Herodotus
  (v. 26) mentions it as an abode of the historic Pelasgians (q.v.). It was, like Samothrace, a seat of the
worship
  of the Cabeiri (q.v.). The.
island
  is now the seat of a
Greek
  bishopric. There is communication with the mainland by occasional vessels. The island is of
great
  fertilitywheat, oats,
barley
 , olives, sesame and valonia being the
principal
  products, in addition to a variety of fruits. Pop. about 92,000, nearly all Turks.


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