Kınalıada (Turkish for: Henna Island; Greek: Πρώτη, romanized: Proti, lit.

Kınalıada means "Henna Island" in Turkish, because the land has a reddish colour as a result of the iron and copper that has been mined there.

Proti (Greek: First) was the island most commonly used as a place of exile under the Byzantine Empire.

The most notable exile was Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, who remained in the Monastery of the Transfiguration on Hristo Peak of the island after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.

It was designed in 1964 by Başar Acarlı and Turhan Ayuroğlu to evoke the shape of a yacht.