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Information about Limnos Lemnos is a Greek island located in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It has an area of ??476 km² and has 17,000 inhabitants. It is mostly hilly with some fertile little valley. The most important center is Mirina on the west coast with an excellent natural harbor. A center of minor importance is Mudro. The island is an important military base by virtue of its location not far from the Straits of the Sea of ??Marmara. From an administrative point of view, Lemnos belongs to the peripheral of the Northern Aegean (peripheral unit of Lemno). Mirina, the capital, is a small picturesque village with a natural harbor dominated by a promontory connected to the mainland by a short isthmus. On the promontory are the ruins of the ancient Byzantine kastro, the fortress built by the Venetians in the XIII century, then the Turkish defenses that were destroyed in 1770 by the Russian fleet that besieged the island then under Ottoman rule. Mirina (or Myrina) has a small but interesting archaeological museum where the archaeological finds from Poliochni, Kaveirio Efestia and Koukonisile are collected.