Burgazada
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Burgazada (Greek: Antigoni) is the third largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul.
It is officially a neighbourhood in the Adalar district of Istanbul, Turkey.
The island consists of a single hill 2 kilometres across. Demetrius I of Macedon, one of the Diadochi (Successors) of Alexander the Great, built a fort here and named it after his father Antigonus I Monophthalmus. The island took this name, but today is generally known by Turks simply as "Burgaz" (Turkish for "fort"). In 2003 Burgaz suffered a terrible forest fire, losing 4 square kilometres of woodland.
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