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Kizikoslu Diogenes, Propontis Marmara Islands' by talking about the OFİOUSA FİSİAwith "t separates from each other. Pilinius OPHİUSSA land on this island he says.AFOUSİA Byzantine name as the island goes on. Soil rich in no time because of the state could not attach and independent administration of this island, according to the flow of history entered under the dominance of the dominant forces in the vicinity. The island was used as a place of exile for the Christian clergy. And Gedeon 's claims that it had been empty in the Middle Ages.


Avşa'nın show great improvements throughout the history of a generally accepted belief.Christians used as a place of exile in the monastery is considered one of the island.Byzantine period, records the name of the island 'Ofousia as are found. Later, the Greeks believed that they migrated to the region of the island 'Afissia' gave the name. Ifthis name is the Avsa Türkçeleştirilmiş.

But the bones of the excavations, made of terra cotta pottery, such as the remains offlint, contrary to the general information of the island's history goes far back shows a lotmore. But today, another remains harabesinden not found in a monastery and a chapel.