Yassıada
An island in Turkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the island near Istanbul. For the shipwreck site near Bodrum, see Yassi Ada.
Yassıada (Turkish: Flat Island), officially renamed Democracy and Freedom Island (Turkish: Demokrasi ve Özgürlükler Adası) in 2013,[1] is one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, to the southeast of Istanbul. In Byzantine times, it was known as Plati (Greek: Πλάτη). It should not be confused with Yassi Ada, a different island in the Aegean Sea.
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The island, which has an area of 45 acres (18 ha), is officially a neighbourhood of Adalar (Turkish: Islands) district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.