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Island in Turkey
Photo: Mehmet Ergun, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Gökçeada, formerly called Imvros, is an Aegean island in Eastern Thrace in Turkey, with a population in 2020 of 10,106. It's near the entrance to the Dardanelles, and is hilly and windswept. It was Greek until 1923, when along with Tenedos / Bozcaada it was assigned to Turkey, making its Cape Avlaka / İnce Burun the westernmost point of Turkey.
Friendly place in an early 20th century manor. They have bike hire.
Newly opened in 2021, clean and eager to please.
Boutique hotel with pool and restaurant. Each room is decorated with artworks and stones from the island.
Friendly clean place by ferry pier.
Gökçeada has an airstrip but no air service and can only be reached by ferry, usually from Kabatepe.
Read in the guideMerkez the main village is the island crossroads and hub of its minibus service. These ply several times a day to the harbour Kuzulimanı 4 km east, and every couple of hours to Yenibademli and Kaleköy 3 km north.
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