IMBROS  , a

Turkish island in the Aegean, at the southern end of the Thracian Chersonese peninsula . It forms with Samothrace, about 17 M. distant, a caza (or canton) in the sanjak of Lemnos and province of the Archipelago Isles . Herodotus (v . 26) mentions it as an abode of the historic Pelasgians (q.v.) . It was, like Samothrace, a seat of the worship of the Cabeiri (q.v.) . The. island is now the seat of a Greek bishopric . There is communication with the mainland by occasional vessels . The island is of great fertility—wheat, oats, barley, olives, sesame and valonia being the principal products, in addition to a variety of fruits . Pop. about 92,000, nearly all Turks .