Chios (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Sophrone Pétridès · 1913
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Description
An entry on Chios, one of the Sporades islands in the Aegean, five miles from Asia Minor at its narrowest strait, and its chief town of the same name. In ancient times it grew rich as an Ionian colony with a great navy and played a part in the Persian Wars. It then wavered between Athens, Sparta, Macedon, and Persia before becoming Roman in 70 before Christ. Arabs ravaged it in the eighth century, Venetians held it until 1261, and Genoese until the Turks took it in 1566.
In 1822, during the Greek rising, 30,000 Greeks were killed or enslaved, and 20,000 fled, most to Syros. The island holds 60,000 people, mostly Greeks, with small Muslim, Catholic, and Jewish minorities. Chios is a Greek metropolitan see with churches, schools, and a library. A Latin bishopric suffragan to Naxos is served by Capuchins, teaching brothers, and sisters, with the island of Samos added to the diocese.
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| CREATOR | Sophrone Pétridès |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |