The huge and beautiful Greek island that looks on maps like it should be in Turkey

Lesbos is closer to Turkey but part of Greece (Image: Getty) Lesbos is one of Greece 's largest islands - but to look at it on a map you would be forgiven for thinking it is part of Turkey . The island's port town Mitilini is about 30 miles away from the Turkish town of Ayvalik on the country's mainland. But it's a 250 mile ferry journey to the Greek mainland port of Piraeus.

The 631 sq mile island has seen rulers come and go for centuries, including the Persians, Byzantines and Turks, but it officially became part of Greece under the Treaty of Lausanne signed in 1923. That followed the First Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire in 1912 when Greece gained not just Lesbos, but other islands in the northern Aegean Sea. Now Greece's third largest island, Lesbos, or Lesvos as it is also known, is made up of desert-like plains in the west, sandy beaches, salt marshes, forested mountains and olive groves.

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