 Abolished in 1867, the sanjak was re-formed in 1879 and existed until the island's capture by the Greeks in 1912.It comprised the islands of Lemnos (Limni in Turkish), Agios Efstratios (Bozbada), Imbros (Imroz) and Tenedos (Bozcaada).The French scholar Vital Cuinet, in his 1896 work "La Turquie d'Asie", recorded a population of 27,079, of which 2,450 were Muslims and the rest Greek Orthodox.