Uzunada


Uzunada or Uzun ada is an island situated at the entry of the Gulf of İzmir on the west coast of Turkey.
It is situated between the Karaburun Peninsula, Turkey in the west, and the district of Foça 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 island has been called by many names. Its ancient Greek name was Drymoussa, and it is also known under its later Greek names of Makronisi or Englezonisi, 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".
"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

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.
After the Treaty of Apamea was concluded in 188 B.C., the city of Clazomenae was awarded the island.
Despite claims of ownership of an English family dating from the mid-19th century, by 1914 there were about 2,000 Ottoman Greeks living on the island.
During World War I, the British Mediterranean Fleet occupied the island in 1916, where they also issued some rare stamps.