CHIOS

CHIOS, or SCIO, a small but the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) off the Anatolian coast. It is situated in the Grecian Archipelago; subject to earthquakes; yields oranges and lemons in great quantities; claims to have been the birthplace of Homer.

It became independent from Turkey, and rejoined the rest of independent Greece after the First Balkan War (1912). The Greek Navy liberated Chios in November 1912 in a hard fought but brief amphibious operation. Turkey recognized Greece's annexation of Chios and the other Aegean islands by the Treaty of London (1913).