"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 ...
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and seat of the municipality is Chios. 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).
It was also the site of the Chios massacre, in which tens of thousands of Greeks on the island were massacred by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020)
- Latitude38.400001525879
- Longitude26.016666412354
- Population23953
