Chios

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

History

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.

Related Topics:
Ionia - Persia - Delian League - Byzantine Empire - Latin emperors of Constantinople - Genoese - Ottoman Turks

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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. Khios rejoined the rest of independent Greece after the First Balkan War (1912).

Related Topics:
1822 - Eugène Delacroix - Louvre - First Balkan War - 1912

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The Turkish massacre of 1822, which annihilated 5/6 of the 120,000 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.

Related Topics:
Mastichohoria - Lord Byron - Victor Hugo

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