Princes Islands (anc. Demonnesoi), a beautiful group of nine islets near the eastern end of the Sea of Marmora, about 10 miles SE. of Constantinople, the largest being called Prinkipo. They are a favourite summer-resort of the Constantinople Greeks, and in old times were frequently a place of exile for those in disfavour at the Byzantine court. See Schlumberger, Les Îles des Princes (1884); S. S. Cox, The Isles of the Princes (New York, 1888).
Princes Islands
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia
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