Tenedos

Tenedos (Greek: Τένεδος, Tenedhos; Latin: Tenedus), or Bozcaada in Turkish, is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively, the island constitutes the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale Province. With an area of 39.9 km² (15 sq mi), it is the third-largest Turkish island after Imbros (Gökçeada) and Marmara. In 2022, the district had a population of 3,120 inhabitants. The main industries are tourism, wine production and fishing. The island has been famous for its grapes, wines and red poppies for centuries. It is a former bishopric and presently a Latin Catholic titular see.

Bozcaada Clock Tower

Tenedos is mentioned in both the Iliad and the Aeneid, in the latter as the site where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War in order to trick the Trojans into believing the war was over and into taking the Trojan Horse within their city walls.

Quotes

• Upon the third day from Salonica, we arrived in the Roade of Tenedos, which is an Iland in the Sea Pontus, or Propontis: It hath a City called Tenedos, built by Tenes, which is a gallant place, having a Castle, and a faire Haven for all sorts of vessells: It produceth good store of wines, and the best supposed to be in all the South east parts of Europe, or yet in Asia. The Iland is not bigge, but exceeding fertile, lying three miles from the place where Troy stood, as Virgil reported, Æneid. 2.
  Est in conspectu Tenedos, notissima fama insula,
  In sight of Troy, a stately Ile I fand
  Shut up with Pontus, from the Trojane land;
  Whose beauteous bounds, made me wish there to stay,
  Or that I might transport the same away;
  Else like Tritonean rude Proponticke charmes,
  T’ imbrace sweet Tenes, alwaies in mine armes.
  And againe:
  Insula dives opum, Priami dum regna manebant.
  An Ile most rich, in Silkes, delicious Wine,
  When Priams Kingdome did in glory shine.
  Where Ceres now, and Bachus love to dwell
  And Flora too, in Berecinthiaes Cell.
  • William Lithgow, Painefull Peregrinations (1640), III, 121–122