On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.

On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.

To that end, its commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, established a forward base at the Moudros bay at Lemnos, directly opposite the Dardanelles straits.

Moudros became the base for future Greek naval operations for the rest of the war and the launching pad for the Greek recovery of the islands of Psara, Imvros, Tenedos, Chios, Lesvos and Samothraki.

To that end, its commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, established a forward base at the Moudros bay at Lemnos, directly opposite the Dardanelles straits.

Moudros Bay became a forward anchorage for the Greek fleet, which enabled it to keep watch on the Dardanelles and prevent a foray by the Ottoman Navy into the Aegean.

The harbour at Moudros was put under the control of British Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, who was ordered to prepare the then largely unused harbour for operations against the Dardanelles.

HMS Agamemnon ( 1906 ) | HMS Agamemnon on an earlier visit to Moudros during the Dardanelles campaign in 1915

Following the loss of a number of Aegean Islands to Greece during the first phase of the war in 1912, and its first defeat at the Battle of Elli, the Ottoman Navy sought to check Greek progress by destroying the Greek fleet docked at the port of Moudros, Lemnos.

The chief towns are Myrina, on the western coast, and Moudros on the eastern shore of a large bay in the middle of the island.

The ruins of the oldest human settlement in the Aegean Islands found so far have been unearthed in archaeological excavations on Lemnos by a team of Greek, Italian and American archaeologists at the Ouriakos site on the Louri coast of Fyssini in Moudros municipality.

Leonardo retained the title of megadux of the Latin Empire and half the island with the capital, Kastro, while his sisters and their husbands received one quarter each with the fortresses of Moudros and Kotsinos.

In late October 1918, the armistice between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies was signed at Moudros.

At 09: 45, the Greek Fleet sailed from Moudros Bay.

While stationed at Moudros on Lemnos he conceived and built a fighter aircraft out of the remains of other crashed aircraft and this came to be known as the Alcock Scout.

For the great skill, judgment and dash displayed by him off Moudros on the 30th September, 1917, in a successful attack on three enemy seaplanes, two of which were brought down in the sea.

During 1994-1997, Greek archaeologists discovered a more recent Bronze Age settlement on the tiny uninhabited island of Koukonesi situated in the Moudros harbour, west of Poliochne.

Vital to this plan was the capture of the Turkish-held port of Moudros on the southern coast of the island of Lemnos.

Koukonesi is a small island, situated in the Moudros harbour, west of Poliochne, on the island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea.

The Armistice of Moudros (), concluded on 30 October 1918, ended the hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I.

It was signed by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and the British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos.

As the frontier receded and its military importance diminished, the town fell into lethargy ; it was during the mid-nineteenth century that Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived and wrote in exile here.

As the Gulf of Finland grew shallow and receded to the north, the site began to lose its maritime importance.

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During the Hellenistic period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance.

Most modern cannon are similar to those used in the Second World War, although the importance of the larger caliber weapons has declined with the development of missiles.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

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The western Khanates, however, eventually adopted Islam ( under Berke and Ghazan ) and the Turkic languages ( because of its commercial importance ), although allegiance to the Great Khan and limited use of the Mongolian language can be seen even in 1330's.

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After the war, CMF units continued to form the bulk of the peacetime army, although the creation of standing infantry units — such as the Royal Australian Regiment — from 1947, meant that the regular army grew in importance.

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Cook went ashore on Tuesday 11 October 1774, and is said to have been impressed with the tall straight trees and New Zealand flax plants, which, although not related to the Northern Hemisphere flax plants after which they are named, produce fibres of economic importance.

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Francis Crick recognized the potential importance of the Griffith protein-only hypothesis for scrapie propagation in the second edition of his " Central dogma of molecular biology ": while asserting that the flow of sequence information from protein to protein, or from protein to RNA and DNA was " precluded ", he noted that Griffith's hypothesis was a potential contradiction ( although it was not so promoted by Griffith ).

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Uzbekistan is a major producer and exporter of cotton, although the importance of this commodity has declined significantly since independence.

Environmental and health standards rose throughout the Victorian era ; improvements in nutrition may also have played a role, although the importance of this is debated.

The importance of the maintenance of this memory can be seen in that it came to be associated with the legendary British hero Arthur, although the date of its inundation is actually c. 2500 BC.

He restored all its faculties, gave larger salaries to the professors, and summoned distinguished teachers from afar ; and, although it never attained to the importance of Padua or Bologna, it nevertheless possessed in 1514 a faculty ( with a good reputation ) of eighty-eight professors.