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The population is about 52,290 (census of 2001), with an area of 910 km². The capital is also called Khíos or Khora; it is a port and the island's chief town. Other settlements include Vrondados , Volissos , Kardamylla and Oinoussais, on a small but wealthy island 5 km away. The island is famous for its scenery and good climate. Its chief export is mastic but it also produces olives, figs, and wine.

1 History

Khíos 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.

During the Turkish occupation, there was a massacre of the islanders after a rebellion in 1822Events March 30 Florida becomes a United States territory. May 24 Battle of Pichincha: Simon Bolivar secures the independence of Quito. June 14 Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the, depicted by Eugène DelacroixNadar) Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix ( April 26, 1798 August 13, 1863) was an important painter from the French romantic period. Delacroix was born at Saint-Maurice-en-Chalencon, Ardeche, in the Rhone-Alpes Region of France. He was trained by Jacques- in his famous artwork at The LouvreThe Louvre Museum Musee du Louvre , located in Paris, is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. The building, a former royal palace (see below), lies in the centre of Paris, between the Seine river and the Rue de Rivoli. Its central cour. Khios rejoined the rest of independent Greece after the First Balkan War ( 19121912 is a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 Establishment of Republic of China. January 6 New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U. January 17 British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the).

The Turkish massacre of 1822, which annihilated 1/4 of the 30,000 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, and the writing of Lord ByronElisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( January 22, 1788 April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. His best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan''. The latter wa.

2 Claims to Fame

• The Korai Library , in Khios, is one of the most important in Greece, containing 95,000 volumes.

• Khíos claims to be the birthplace of HomerFor other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). Homer ( Greek Ὅμηρος Hómēros was a legendary (or perhaps mythical) early Greek poet traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad a, HippocratesHippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC 380 BC) was an Ancient Greek physician, commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all time; he has been called the father of medicine. He was a physician from the so called medical school of Kos. the mathematician, and Oenopides . Oenopion, a legendary king, is said to have brought winemaking to the island.

• Khíos is home to one of the biggest ship-owning fraternities in Greece.

• Khios' satellite islands include Inousses and Psara, from where Kanaris fired the first shots in the Greek Struggle for Independence ( 1822 onwards).