Chios

Chios (????; alternative transliterations Khios and Hios, see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

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The population is about 52,290 (census of 2001), with an area of 910 km?. 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 olives, figs, and wine.

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Chios was colonized by Ionians but has been occupied by the Persians, part of the Delian League and the Byzantine Empire, before passing through the possession of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, the Genoese, the Ottoman Turks.

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During the Turkish occupation, there was a massacre of the islanders after a rebellion in 1822, depicted by Eug?ne Delacroix in his famous artwork at The Louvre. Khios rejoined the rest of independent Greece after the First Balkan War (1912).

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