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Yeşil Island
Yeşil Ada, or Green Island, is a small lakeside village on Lake Eğirdir in Turkey's Isparta province, just 1.5 km from the town centre and reached today by a low road causeway across the water. Long known as Nis, it keeps an old-world charm of stone-based wooden houses, narrow lanes and a tiny fishing harbour, and it is widely considered the most attractive tourist quarter in Eğirdir. What draws visitors is the relaxed atmosphere between the lake and the hills: a stroll through streets that once held both Greek and Turkish neighbourhoods, lunch of fresh lake fish at a waterside restaurant, and the 19th-century Aya Stefanos Church, the lasting landmark of the island's former Greek Orthodox community.