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Tenedos (other)
Tenedos is an island in the northeast Aegean Sea, and part of the province Çanakkale of Turkey. Tenedos may also refer to : Places * Tenedos (Pamphylia), a town of ancient Pamphylia, now in Turkey * Fort Tenedos, a defunct Zulu fort * Tenedos Bay Tenedos (, ''Tenedhos'', ), or Bozcaada in Turkish, is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively, the island constitutes the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale Province. With an area of it is the third ... Ships * HMS ''Tenedos'', ships and a training establishment of the British Royal Navy * ''Tenedos'' class frigate, sail frigates of the Russian Imperial Navy * Greek minelayer ''Tenedos'', a minelayer of the Hellenic Navy * USS ''Tenedos'' (1861), a ship of the Stone Fleet of the Union Navy Animals * ''Tenedos'' (spider) See also * Battle of Tenedos {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenedos
Tenedos (, ''Tenedhos'', ), or Bozcaada in Turkish, is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively, the island constitutes the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale Province. With an area of it is the third largest Turkish island after Imbros (Gökçeada) and Marmara. In 2018, the district had a population of 3023. The main industries are tourism, wine production and fishing. The island has been famous for its grapes, wines and red poppies for centuries. It is a former bishopric and presently a Latin Catholic titular see. Tenedos is mentioned in both the ''Iliad'' and the ''Aeneid'', in the latter as the site where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War in order to trick the Troy, Trojans into believing the war was over and into taking the Trojan Horse within their city walls. The island was important throughout classical antiquity despite its small size due to its strategic location at the entrance of the Dardanelles. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenedos (Pamphylia)
Tenedos ( grc, Τένεδος) was a fortified coast-town in the west of ancient Pamphylia, 20 stadia to the west of Attalia. Its site is located on the Arab Su, Asiatic Turkey. References Populated places in ancient Pamphylia Former populated places in Turkey {{Pamphylia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Tenedos
Fort Tenedos was a large earth-walled fort constructed on the Zulu side of the Tugela River in January 1879, opposite Fort Pearson, to support the British at the start of the Anglo-Zulu War. Construction On 2 December 1878 Captain W. R. C. Wynne embarked in command of the 2nd Field Company of the Royal Engineers for Natal, part of the small number of reinforcements sent to the colony ahead of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. The company joined the first column under Colonel Charles Knight Pearson at the mouth of the Tugela River on 12 January and the following day crossed the river with them.Vetch 1900, p. 264. In the presence of the Zulu, Wynne with his company of Royal Engineers, assisted by the line, laid out and built Fort Tenedos on the left (Zulu) bank of the Lower Tugela. The earthwork fort, large enough to shelter the entire column and a quantity of stores, was completed between 13 and 17 January. It was named Fort Tenedos after the British warship , anchored off the mouth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenedos Bay
Tenedos (, ''Tenedhos'', ), or Bozcaada in Turkish, is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively, the island constitutes the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale Province. With an area of it is the third largest Turkish island after Imbros (Gökçeada) and Marmara. In 2018, the district had a population of 3023. The main industries are tourism, wine production and fishing. The island has been famous for its grapes, wines and red poppies for centuries. It is a former bishopric and presently a Latin Catholic titular see. Tenedos is mentioned in both the '' Iliad'' and the '' Aeneid'', in the latter as the site where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War in order to trick the Trojans into believing the war was over and into taking the Trojan Horse within their city walls. The island was important throughout classical antiquity despite its small size due to its strategic location at the entrance of the Dardanelles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Tenedos
Four ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Tenedos'', after the island of Tenedos: Ships * was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812. She was used as a convict hulk from 1843 and was broken up in 1875. * was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1870. She was rated as a corvette from 1875 and was sold in 1887. * was a depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers at HMNB Devonport, Devonport. She was the former , renamed HMS ''Tenedos'' in 1904. She was transferred to Chatham Dockyard in 1906 to become a training establishment. * was an launched in 1918 and sunk in 1942. Training establishments * was a training establishment at Chatham, Kent, Chatham for boy artificers. It was established in 1906 aboard the old HMS ''Triumph'', but closed in 1910. A number of other ships were renamed HMS ''Tenedos'' whilst serving as homes for the establishment: ** was the original HMS ''Tenedos'' between 1906 and 1910. ** was HMS ''Tenedos II'' between 1905 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Russian Sail Frigates
This is a list of Russian sail frigates of the period 1694–1852: The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up) Sail frigates of war Early Russian frigates *2 small frigates (1689, training vessels on Lake Pleshcheyevo) – Discarded 1723, burnt 1783 *''Sviatoi Apostol Pavel'' 24 ("Святой Апостол Павел", 1694, A) – In October 1694 sent from White Sea to France as a merchant ship with the state goods, captured by France just in harbour because sailed under the Dutch ensign during the War of the Grand Alliance *''Sviatoye Prorochestvo'' 44 (''Santa Prophetia'') ("Святое Пророчество" or "Санта Профетиа") (1694, Dutch-built for Russia) – Converted to merchant vessel after 1695 and sent from Arkhangelsk to Europe with goods, last mentioned 1694 ''Sviatogo Dukha''-class (2 units) *''Sviatogo Dukha'' 12 ("Святого Духа", 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Minelayer Tenedos
Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: * Greeks, an ethnic group. * Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. ** Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek. ** Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC). ** Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC. ** Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity. ** Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. ** Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD). * Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language. * Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church. * Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity. * Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD. Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Tenedos (1861)
USS ''Tenedos'', abark of 245 tons, long, was originally a Pacific whaler, owned by Lawrence and Company of New London, Connecticut. During the American Civil War, the United States Navy purchased her on 16 October 1861 for use in the " Stone Fleet," a group of ships to be sunk as obstructions along the coast of the Confederate States of America. Under the command of Master O. Sisson, she was sunk as blockship in Charleston Harbor off Charleston Charleston most commonly refers to: * Charleston, South Carolina * Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital * Charleston (dance) Charleston may also refer to: Places Australia * Charleston, South Australia Canada * Charleston, Newfoundlan ..., South Carolina, on 19 or 20 December 1861. See also * Union Navy * Union Blockade References *History [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenedos (spider)
''Tenedos'' is a spider genus of the family Zodariidae. It has around 72 species from Central America, Central and South America. The genus is possibly paraphyly, paraphyletic; it forms an evolutionary lineage with the genus ''Ishania'', but which species should be placed in which genus is not completely resolved. Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species: *''Tenedos andes'' Jocqué & Baert, 2002 – Colombia *''Tenedos asteronoides'' Jocqué & Baert, 2002 – Ecuador *''Tenedos ayo'' Martínez, Brescovit & Cuervo, 2022 – Colombia *''Tenedos banos'' Jocqué & Baert, 2002 – Ecuador *''Tenedos barronus'' (Chamberlin, 1925) – Panama *''Tenedos brescoviti'' Jocqué & Baert, 2002 – Brazil *''Tenedos calebi'' Martínez, Brescovit & Cuervo, 2022 – Colombia *''Tenedos capote'' Jocqué & Baert, 2002 – Colombia *''Tenedos caqueta'' Martínez, Brescovit & Cuervo, 2022 – Colombia *''Tenedos carlosprestesi'' Candiani, Bonaldo & Brescovit, 2008 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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