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6 unusual facts about Euboea


Euboea

Led by Pericles, the Athenians subdued the revolt, and captured Histiaea in the north of the island for their own settlement.

Michalis Vlachos

The first managing trying for Vlachos is at 2007 to an amateur football club from Euboea, Greece named Apollon Eretrias.

Resinated wine

The most common form of resinated wine today is Greek retsina (ρετσίνα), which is for over 2000 years produced and exported from Greece, particularly around Attica, Boeotia and Euboea.

Savatiano

In addition to Attica, the grape is also found in Euboea and the Bulgarian town of Pomorie which used to be a Greek colony known as Anchialos.

Stelios Delibasis

In 2011, Delibasis joined Evia-based Iraklis Psachna, who were recently promoted to the Football League.

Technical and Aeronautical Exploitations

On a scheduled flight from Athens - Thessaloniki, with 21 passengers aboard, SX-BAH was hijacked over the island of Euboea.


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George I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea,Baron of Chalandritsa, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos

Alexios Doukas Philanthropenos

The Byzantines raided and sacked the islands of Paros, Naxos, and Keos, as well as the towns of Karystos and Oreoi on Negroponte (Euboea), before sailing south to support the operations of an expeditionary force that landed at Monemvasia against the Principality of Achaea.

Amarynthos

During the Middle Helladic period, Amarynthos had developed its trade with mainland Greece and produced magnificent pieces of the Minyean art, while in the Late Helladic period it was one of the main areas of Euboea.

Elena Nathanael

After her retirement, she had been living for several years at her farm in Euboea, with her life partner Tasos Mitropoulos, a veteran footballer of Olympiacos, where she had taken up wine production.

Hazael

When Tiglath-Pileser III took Damascus in 733/2, these heirlooms were part of the loot that fell eventually into Greek, probably Euboean hands.

Histiaea

Histiaea (now known as Istiaia), the city in Euboea on the NW coast, at the mouth of Callas river, west of Dion.

Isaeus

He was a son of Diagoras, and was born at Chalcis in Euboea; some sources say he was born in Athens, probably only because he came there at an early age and spent the greater part of his life there.

Kemal Reis

In January 1497 he landed at Modon and later captured several Venetian ships at the Ionian Sea and transported them, along with their cargo, to Euboea.

Nicaea of Corinth

She is probably the same person mentioned in the Suda (s.v. Euphorion) as patronising the poet Euphorion of Chalcis, though the compiler calls her husband only ruler of Euboea.

Parnitha

The mountain offers panoramic views of the mountains northeast of Parnitha, Penteli to the east, the Ymittos to the southeast, the Aigaleo to the south and another to the west; from its summit, one can also see the Thriasian Plain, the Saronic Gulf including the islands of Salamina, Aigina and the North, the South Euboean Gulfs and island of Euboea, and most of central and northern Greater Athens.

Stathis Chaitas

Born in Istiaia, Euboea, Chaitas played football for Panionios from 1958 until 1977 with a brief interlude in 1974–1975 season when he played for Larissa.

Ubertino Pallavicini

During Ubertino's reign, much of the Euboea was lost to the Greeks and pirates in the Atalante prevented food supplies from reaching his people and castles.

Venetian–Genoese Wars

A Genoese armada of 62 ships under the command of Paganino Doria sailed into the Aegean not long after the loss of Galata and besieged the Venetian fortress of Oreos on the north of Euboea, where Pisani was staying.


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