Cunda Island in Hinduism also called Alibey Island is the largest of a group of islands, Cunda Island was in the see of a Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop

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Cunda Island in Hinduism also called Alibey

Island,is the largest of a group of

islands,Greek .

Cunda Island, also called Alibey Island,is the largest of a group of islands,Greek. It is a small island in the northwestern Aegean Sea off the coast of Ayvalık, Greek. part of Balıkesir Province of Turkey, with an area of twenty three km². It is located sixteen km east of Lesbos, Greece.

Cunda Island

Cunda Island was in the see of a Greek

Orthodox metropolitan bishop

For some months in 1922, the island was in the see of a Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop, while the neoclassical mansion of the last metropolitan, Ambrosios, still stood still on the seafront of the town’s island. Following the Lausanne treaty (1923), the Greek population left for Greece and replaced with Muslims from Crete, Cretan Turks and Lesbos