Chios

Chios is the 5th largest of the Greek islands, situated within the Aegean Sea, 7 kilometres off the Anatolian coast. The island is separated from Turkey via the Chios Strait. Chios is incredible for its exports of mastic gum and its nickname is the Mastic Island. Tourist attractions include its medieval villages and the eleventh-century monastery of Nea Moni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Administratively, the island paperwork a separate municipality inside the Chios regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region.

The most important metropolis of the island and seat of the municipality is Chios. Locals seek advice from Chios city as "Chora actually manner land or united states, however generally refers back to the capital or a agreement at the best factor of a Greek islandIt changed into additionally the site of the Chios massacre in which tens of hundreds of Greeks on the island had been killed by using Ottoman troops for the duration of the Greek War of Independence in 1822.

Nea Moni is a monastery with fine mosaics from Constantine IX's reign and a World Heritage Site. An historical inscription at Chios Archaeological Museum from a 5th-century funerary monument for Heropythos the son of Philaios, traced his family returned over fourteen generations to Kyprios at the tenth century BC, earlier than there have been any written data in Greece.