Editing Tenedos (section)

== Name ==
[[File:Greek Silver Tetradrachm of Tenedos (Mysia, Islands off Troas), a Wonderful Janiform Head of Zeus and Hera.jpg|thumb|left|Ancient silver [[Tetradrachm]] from Tenedos, depicting [[Zeus]] and [[Hera]] and bearing the inscription "Τενεδίων" (Tenedion) on the other side]]

The island is known in English as both Tenedos (the Greek name) and Bozcaada (the Turkish name). Over the centuries many other names have been used.{{sfn|Yale|2012|ps=}} Documented [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] names for the island are Leukophrys,<ref>[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/tau/310 Suda Encyclopedia, tau.311]</ref><ref>[http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/erudits/photius/conon.htm Conon, Narrations (Photius), §28]</ref> Calydna, Phoenice and Lyrnessus ([[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]], HN 5,140).{{sfn|Tenedos|2012|ps=}} The official Turkish name for the island is Bozcaada; the Turkish word "boz" means either a barren land or grey to brown color (sources indicate both of these meanings may have been associated with the island) and "ada" meaning island.{{sfn|Akpınar|Saygın|Karakaya|2011|p=44|ps=}} The name Tenedos was derived, according to [[Apollodorus of Athens]], from the [[Greek hero]] [[Tenes]], who ruled the island at the time of the [[Trojan War]] and was killed by [[Achilles]]. Apollodorus writes that the island was originally known as Leocophrys until Tenes landed on the island and became the ruler.{{sfn|Apollodorus|1976|ps=}} The island became known as Bozcaada when the Ottoman Empire took the island over.{{sfn|Sugar|1996|ps=}} Tenedos remained a common name for the island along with Bozcaada after the Ottoman conquest of the island, often with Greek populations and Turkish populations using different names for the island.{{sfn|Bozcaada|2012|ps=}}