Tenedos

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Ten·e·dos

 (tĕn′ĭ-dŏs′, -ĭ-dōs′, -ə-thôs)
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Tenedos

(ˈtɛnɪˌdɒs)
n
(Placename) an island in the NE Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles: in Greek legend the base of the Greek fleet during the siege of Troy. Modern Turkish name: Bozcaada
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Boz•ca•a•da

(ˌboʊz dʒɑ ɑˈdɑ, -dʒɑˈdɑ)

n.
an island in the NE Aegean, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. Ancient, Tenedos.
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(13) as analysed by Proclus was very similar to Vergil's version in "Aeneid" ii, comprising the episodes of the wooden horse, of Laocoon, of Sinon, the return of the Achaeans from Tenedos, the actual Sack of Troy, the division of spoils and the burning of the city.
Involuntarily the names of Naxos, Tenedos, and Carpathos, rise before the mind, and we seek vainly for Ulysses' vessel or the "clipper" of the Argonauts.
Of the different sorts of the first are husbandmen, artificers, exchange-men, who are employed in buying and selling, seamen, of which some are engaged in war, some in traffic, some in carrying goods and passengers from place to place, others in fishing, and of each of these there are often many, as fishermen at Tarentum and Byzantium, masters of galleys at Athens, merchants at AEgina and Chios, those who let ships on freight at Tenedos; we may add to these those who live by their manual labour and have but little property; so that they cannot live without some employ: and also those who are not free-born on both sides, and whatever other sort of common people there may be.
"Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe.
When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the gods, for we were longing to get home; cruel Jove, however, did not yet mean that we should do so, and raised a second quarrel in the course of which some among us turned their ships back again, and sailed away under Ulysses to make their peace with Agamemnon; but I, and all the ships that were with me pressed forward, for I saw that mischief was brewing.
The press of the time mentions it only three times with reference to football: to report a defeat by 1-0 in a match, played on 15 October 1884 against the Victoria Rangers, and to announce two matches against the sailors of the HMS Tenedos for 6 June and 22 August 1885.
Over the next few months signalling cables were laid from nearby Navy ships and from Tenedos to Gallipoli and small signalling points (with a small hut where at all possible) were set up on the Gallipoli peninsula itself.
of its mainland because its only islands are Imbros and Tenedos, neither
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