Information AboutChios |
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name = Chios| name_local = Νομός Χίου| image_map = GreeceChios.png| periph = North Aegean | capital = Chios | population = 53,817 | population_as_of = 2005| pop_rank = 45th| pop_dens = 59.5| popdens_rank = 20th| area = 904| area_rank = 48th| postal_code = 82x xx| area_code = 227x0| licence = ΧΙ| provinces = | municip = 10| commun = | ISO = GR-85| website = www.chios.gr | }} Chios (''Χίος'' in Greek ); alternative transliterations ''Khios'' and ''Hios'', see also List Of Traditional Greek Place Names ) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea . The population is about 52,290 (census of 2001), with an area of 904 Km&2 . The capital is also called Chios or Chora; it is a port and the island's chief town. The island is famous for its scenery and good climate. Its chief export is Mastic but it also produces Olive s, Fig s, and Wine . History Chios was colonized by Ionia ns but has been occupied by the Persia ns, part of the Delian League and the Byzantine Empire , before passing through the possession of the Latin Emperors Of Constantinople , the Genoese (who called the island ''Scio''), and the Ottoman Turks (who called it '''''Sakız'''''). During the Turkish occupation, there was a Massacre Of The Islanders after a rebellion in 1822 , depicted by Eugène Delacroix in his famous artwork at The Louvre . Chios rejoined the rest of independent Greece after the First Balkan War ( 1912 ). The Turkish massacre of 1822, which annihilated 5/6 of the 120,000 Greek inhabitants of the island, decimated the Mastichohoria , the mastic growing villages in the south of the island. It triggered enormous public outrage in Western Europe, as can be seen in the art of Delacroix, in the writing of Lord Byron and Victor Hugo . Claims to fame
of Chios, where 100.000 Chians were slaughtered by the Turks . The costumes and the scenery are entirely authentic. This and the works of Lord Byron did much to draw the attention of mainland Europe to the catastrophe that had taken place on Chios (1824, oil on canvas, 419 x 354 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris]]
Chios in popular culture
Climate Its climate is mainly Mediterranean. Winters are rarely founded in higher elevations. |