Page "Aegina" Paragraph 42

According to the 12th-century bishop of Athens, Michael Choniates, by his time the island had become a base for pirates.

This is corroborated by Benedict of Peterborough's graphic account of Greece, as it was in 1191, where he states that many of the islands were uninhabited from fear of pirates and that Aegina, along with Salamis and Makronesos, were their strongholds.