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Historically, many residents of Büyükada were fishermen. However, by the late 2010s tourism to Büyükada swelled enormously as it became a favourite day-trip destination for visitors from greenery-starved Arab countries in particular. The surge in tourism was a major factor in bringing to an end the
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Every year on St George's Day (23 April) visitors flock to the island to take part in a pilgrimage to the monastery of Hagios Georgios Koudanas on Yücetepe. Both Christians and Muslims take part in arcane rituals such as winding thread all the way along the path leading to the monastery. Since the
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There are several churches on the island although they are not always accessible to visitors. These are the Greek Orthodox Churches of the Panagia (Virgin Mary) and Hagios Demetrios (St Dimitri), the Franciscan Church of San Pacifico and the Armenian Church of Surp Astvadzadzin Verapolium.
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During the period of Byzantine rule the Princes' Islands became a place where rulers founded churches and monasteries but where they also dumped their enemies to prevent them from plotting to harm them. The Byzantine Emperor
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In the 19th century the island had several well known hotels. The most conspicuous survivor is the Splendid Palace Hotel (1911) which still lords it over the waterfront with its two domes which once covered water cisterns.
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At one time iron mining took place on the island in the area now called Maden (Mine). International tourism to the Princes' Islands was relatively slow to take off but by 2015 was becoming the dominant economic factor.
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which has been described as "one of the most beautiful streets in the world". Among the best known mansions are the Con Pasa Köşkü, the Yelkencizade Köşkü, the Hacopolo Köşkü, the Fabiato Köşkü and the Mizzi Köşkü.
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Prinkipo was one of the last places that the Ottomans managed to seize from the Byzantine. It then settled down as a sleepy backwater until 1846 when the first ferry service made it easily accessible from mainland
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monastery dedicated to Sotiros Christou.(Christ the Saviour) stands on the top of İsa Tepesi. Although it, too, dates back to Byzantine times, most of what a modern visitor sees is work of the mid-19th century.
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Büyükada is 4.3 km (2.6 miles) long and 1.3 km (0.8 miles) wide. The centre of the island is dominated by two peaks. The one nearest to the ferry landing is the
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settled on what was then Prinkipo in April 1929 and lived there until July 1933. While there, Trotsky lived in a house called the Yanaros mansion which is now in ruins.
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date coincides with Turkey's Children and National Sovereignty Day public holiday (and sometimes with the Easter tourism period) the crowds attending can be enormous.
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exhaustively listed the historic mansions on the island. In 2009 the poet and translator Joachim Sartorius published an exquisite short travelogue called
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The introduction of electric buses on the island prompted protests from local residents who see them as a threat to the island's pedestrianized areas.
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as a refuge from the summer heat of Istanbul. Nowadays the island's demographics are more similar to a typical suburb of mainland Istanbul.
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was the first of the rulers who is known to have built a convent (as well as a palace) on Prinkipo in C.E. 569. This was expanded by
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Today's masonry structure constructed in a place of former wooden pier, built at Büyükada in 1899, was designed by Mihran Azaryan.
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whereupon it became an increasingly popular summer retreat for wealthier city residents. Most of its Greek residents left in the
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Until 2020 the only transportation on Büyükada (as on the other inhabited Princes' islands) had been horse-drawn phaetons (
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and the expulsion order of 1966. Many of the Armenians were driven out in 1924. Just a few Jews still live on the island.
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Also on İsa Tepesi is what should be the pride and joy of the island but is instead on its very last legs, the huge
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which was, until 2020, filled with phaetons and their horses waiting to take visitors on a tour of the island.
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to serve as an orphanage which it did until 1964 except during the First World War when it was used by the
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style in 1899 and started service in 1915. It once housed the island's cinema. Not far inland is a
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Most development on the island is on its northern side with the south still largely wooded.
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Greek Orthodox orphanage, Europe's largest wooden building, awaits salvation off Istanbul
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Con Paşa AKA Trasivolos Yannaros who established the first ferry services to the island
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refused to allow its use as a casino, it was bought by a woman who donated it to the
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Adalar Muzesi) tells the story of the islands' people as much as of its buildings.
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The island is still home to many beautiful 19th-century mansions especially along
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During the first half of the 20th century, the island was popular with prosperous
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Locals from Princes’ Islands detained for protesting intro of bus transportation
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erected in 1923, the year of the founding of the Turkish Republic. Beside it is
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Visitors have been writing about Büyükada since the Turkish travel writer
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tradition of using phaetons as the only transport on the island in 2020.
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and soon began to serve as a place of exile for the Byzantine empresses
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By far the most important attraction for tourists on Büyükada is the
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lived in exile (April 1929 – July 1933) as it appeared in 2006.
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After leaving the island in 1933 Trotsky wrote an essay called
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Splendid Palace Hotel (1908) near the Büyükada ferry terminal.
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One of the main squares of the island, with the statue of
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The isles of the Princes; or, The pleasures of Prinkipo
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One of the main squares of the island, with the statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Büyükada is located in Turkey
Büyükada is located in Sea of Marmara
Büyükada is located in Istanbul
40°51′28″N 29°07′12″E / 40.85778°N 29.12000°E / 40.85778; 29.12000
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Marmara
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Istanbul
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Adalar
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