Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.

Mastic ( aromatic, ivory coloured resin ) is grown on the Aegean island of Chios.

Homer is most frequently said to be born in the Ionian region of Asia Minor, at Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, dying on the Cycladic island of Ios.

The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait.

Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Chios regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region.

The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Chios ( town ).

Locals refer to Chios town as " Chora " (" Χώρα " literally means land or country, but usually refers to the capital or a settlement at the highest point of a Greek island ).

The Chios Basin is a hydrographic sub-unit of the Aegean Sea adjacent to the island of Chios.

Archaeological research on Chios has found evidence that the island has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic era.

) has also been excavating periodically on Chios since 1970, though much of its work on the island remains unpublished.

It is also widely held by scholars that the island was not occupied by humans during the Middle Bronze Age ( 2300 – 1600 ), though researchers have recently suggested that the lack of evidence from this period may only demonstrate the lack of excavations on Chios and the northern Aegean.

9th-century Euboean and Cypriote presence on the island is attested by ceramics, while a Phoenician presence is noted at Erythrae, the traditional competitor of Chios on the mainland.

By the fifth to 4th centuries BC, the island had grown to an estimated population of over 120, 000 ( two to three times the estimated population in 2005 ), and based on the huge necropoli at the main city of Chios, the asty, it is thought the majority lived in that area.

Theopompus moved back to Chios with the other exiles in 333 BC after Alexander had invaded Asia Minor and decreed their return, as well as the exile or trial of Persian supporters on the island.

* 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.

Themistocles had many daughters, of whom Mnesiptolema, whom he had by a second marriage, was wife to Archeptolis, her brother by another mother, she became priestess of Cybele ; Italia was married to Panthoides, of the island of Chios ; Sybaris to Nicomedes the Athenian.

* March 31 – Greek War of Independence: Start of Chios Massacre, during which 20, 000 Greeks on the island of Chios are slaughtered by Ottoman troops and 23, 000 exiled.

Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.

Pistacia lentiscus () ( Mastic ) is a dioecious evergreen shrub or small tree of the Pistacio genus growing up to tall which is cultivated for its aromatic resin, mainly on the Greek island of Chios.

The aromatic, ivory coloured resin, also known as mastic, is harvested as a spice from the cultivated mastic trees grown in the south of the Greek island of Chios in the Aegean Sea, where it is also known by the name " Chios Tears ".

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

Chios (, ; alternative transliterations Khíos and Híos ) is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, off the Anatolia coast.

Chios Town, with a population of 32, 400, is built around the island's main harbour and medieval castle.

The naval power of Chios during this period is demonstrated by the fact that the Chians had the largest fleet of all the Ionians at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC ( 100 ships ).

Within the European Union, Mastic production in Chios is granted protected designation of origin ( PDO ) and a protected geographical indication ( PGI ) name.

These are granted because, although the tree is native to all of the Mediterranean region, only the mastic trees of southern Chios " weep " the masticha resin when their bark is scored.

The island's mastic production is controlled by a co-operative of medieval villages, collectively known as the ' Mastichochoria ' ( Μαστιχοχώρια ), which are also located in the southern part of Chios.

The smoke from the massive destruction formed a line that traveled east over Attica, southern Euboea, Chios, to the edge of Turkey, at a distance of approximately 350 km.

During its long history, the BSA has been involved in a multitude of archaeological projects, including surveys in Laconia, Boeotia, Methana ( Argolid ), and in the islands of Ithaca ( Ionian islands ), Kea, Melos, Kythera ( Cyclades ), Chios ( North Aegean ) and Crete ( Ayiopharango Survey, Ayios Vasilios Survey, Knossos Survey, Praisos Survey ) and excavations at Nea Nikomedeia, Sitagroi, Servia and Assiros ( Greek Macedonia ), Lefkandi ( Euboia ), Emborio and Kato Phana ( Chios ), Perachora ( Corinthia ), Mycenae ( Argolid ), Sparta ( Laconia ), Phylakopi ( Melos ), Keros ( Cyclades ), as well as in Crete at Knossos, Karphi, Praisos, Debla, Trapeza Cave, Atsipades Korakias, Psychro, Myrtos, Petsofas and Palaikastro.

In March 1983, ending his 23 years long exile in the Soviet Union, he returned to Greece and Chios.

One chain extends across the sea to Chios, another extends across Euboea to Samos, and a third extends across the Peloponnese and Crete to Rhodes, dividing the Aegean from the Mediterranean.

Category: People from Chios ( regional unit )

The defeat of Persia at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC meant the liberation of Chios from Persian rule.

Ionia proper comprised a narrow coastal strip from Phocaea in the north near the mouth of the river Hermus ( now the Gediz ), to Miletus in the south near the mouth of the river Maeander, and included the islands of Chios and Samos.

These Asian cities were ( from south to north ) Miletus, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Erythrae, Clazomenae and Phocaea, together with Samos and Chios.

They settled on Chios, took Erythrae from the Carians, Pamphylians ( both Luwian ) and Cretans.

* c. 520 BC — Kore, from Chios (?

Guido suggests that the Sherden may ultimately derive from Ionia, in the central west coast of Anatolia, in the region of Hermos, east of the island of Chios.

He also had several sons, namely Melas, Talus, Maron, Euanthes, Salagus and Athamas, who all sailed with him to Chios from Crete.

Ruins of the amphitheatre at ErythraiErythrae or Erythrai () later Litri, was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor, situated 22 km north-east of the port of Cyssus ( modern name: Çeşme ), on a small peninsula stretching into the Bay of Erythrae, at an equal distance from the mountains Mimas and Corycus, and directly opposite the island of Chios.

The first suggests it derives from the Greek island of Chios, and the second that it was named after Scio, New York, although that town was also named for Chios.

Webster referred to the 1822 destruction of Scio, the then-current French translation of Chios (, pronounced / ˈçio ̞ s /), derived from the Genoese dialect.

Category: People from Chios

Though the painting was quickly purchased by the State, Delacroix was disappointed when it was sent to the Lille Musée des Beaux-Arts ; he had intended for it to hang at the Luxembourg, where it would have joined The Barque of Dante and Scenes from the Massacres of Chios.

Without a port, the island depended for its very limited intercourse with the outside world on small craft that were drawn up on the beaches, for which Icarian boat-builders had a high reputation, building boats from the abundant fir forests ; they sold boats and lumber for coin and grain at Chios.

Ikarian Greeks are closely related to other Aegean island Greeks, such as Greeks from Samos, Chios, Fournoi Korseon and Patmos, as well as Greeks from Asia Minor.