Cunda Island
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- This article is about Cunda Island in Turkey, for Cunda in Hinduism.
Cunda or Alibey Island (Greek Hekatonisa or Μοσχονήσι/Moshonisi) is a small island in the northwestern Aegean Sea off the coast of Ayvalık, part of Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It is the largest island in the Ayvalık Islands group. It is close to Lesbos, Greece.
Cunda is linked to Ayvalık on the mainland by a causeway. The island has a typical resort town, Alibey, and a bus and ferry link to Ayvalık. Ada Camping, a camping site at a calm part of Cunda Island is a fairly known camping site that offers bungalows as well as place for trailers[1].
The island’s former Greek population was expelled in the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey and was replaced by Muslims from Crete, Cretan Turks, ensuring a general sense of hospitality. The main landmark of Alibey village remains the large former Greek Orthodox cathedral, now abandoned and dilapidated.
Poroselene bay in the north of the island is probably the island’s major “sight.” In antiquity, it was the home of a dolphin who saved a drowning boy, mentioned by Pausanias.
In 2007 after a two-year-work, all 551 buildings in Cunda Island were inspected and registered by Turkish Science Academy and Yildiz Teknik University Architecture Faculty within the "Turkey Culture Inventory Project".1
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[edit] See also
- List of islands of Turkey
- Aegean Islands
- Cunda Island Travel Portal
- Cunda Island Panoramique Website
- Ayvalık
- Cunda
- Cunda Fr
- Sarımsaklı Tr
- Sarımsaklı en
- Sarımsaklı Russian
