[1] It is situated between the Karaburun Peninsula, Turkey in the west, and the district of Foça in the east.
Thucydides briefly mentions Drymoussa as a location where some ships of the Spartan Navarch Astyochus put in for eight days during a period of high winds in the 20th year of the Peloponnesian War.
[6][7][8] Despite claims of ownership of an English family dating from the mid-19th century, by 1914 there were about 2,000 Ottoman Greeks living on the island.
[9] During World War I, the British Mediterranean Fleet occupied the island (referred to as "Chustan") in 1916, where they also issued some rare stamps.
[10][11] After the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, most of the island's former inhabitants settled in Nea Ionia, Magnesia.