Imbros

British  

/ ˈɪmbrəs /

noun

1. Turkish name: Imroz.  a Turkish island in the NE Aegean Sea, west of the Gallipoli Peninsula: occupied by Greece (1912–14) and Britain (1914–23). Area: 280 sq km (108 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

This year, with Derby Winner Determine and Handicap Star Imbros leading his string of more than 20 horses, Crevolin is the top money-winning owner in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, the foreign possessions of Athens are limited to Lemnos, Imbros, Scyros, Delos and Samos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

Just look at the list of Greek territories already occupied by the allied troops—Lemnos, Imbros, Mytilene, Castelloriza, Corfu, Saloniki, including the Chalcidice Peninsula, and a large part of Macedonia.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

To the south of Thrace were Thasos, remarkable for fertility, and for mines of gold and silver; Samothrace, celebrated for the mysteries of Cybele; Imbros, sacred to Ceres and Mercury.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John

They got aboard the warships waiting for them in the bay, and went to Mudros and Imbros.

From Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by Gallishaw, John