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<div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Tourism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tourism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Climate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Geology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Landmarks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Landmarks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Landmarks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Landmarks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Endangered_sites" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Endangered_sites"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Endangered sites</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Endangered_sites-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Administration" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Administration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Administration</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Administration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" 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</button> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Cuisine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuisine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Cuisine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuisine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>In popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Sports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Newspapers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newspapers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14.3</span> <span>Newspapers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newspapers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_residents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_residents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Notable residents</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_residents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gallery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>Gallery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Works_cited" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works_cited"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18.1</span> <span>Works cited</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Works_cited-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">19</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of 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href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%88%E1%88%B5%E1%89%A6%E1%88%B5" title="ለስቦስ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ለስቦስ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3" title="لسبوس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="لسبوس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Лесбас – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Лесбас" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Лесбас – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Лесбас" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%81" title="Лесбос – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Лесбос" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%ADsos_L%C3%A9svos" title="Nísos Lésvos – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Nísos Lésvos" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82" title="Λέσβος – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Λέσβος" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbo" title="Lesbo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Lesbo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3" title="لسبوس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لسبوس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%EB%B3%B4%EC%8A%A4%EC%84%AC" title="레스보스섬 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="레스보스섬" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%A2%D5%B8%D5%BD" title="Լեսբոս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Լեսբոս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lezbos" title="Lezbos – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Lezbos" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesba" title="Lesba – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Lesba" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbas" title="Lesbas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Lesbas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszbosz" title="Leszbosz – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Leszbosz" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%81" title="Лезбос – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Лезбос" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8" title="लेस्व्होस – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="लेस्व्होस" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos_(eiland)" title="Lesbos (eiland) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Lesbos (eiland)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9C%E3%82%B9%E5%B3%B6" title="レスボス島 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="レスボス島" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbo" title="Lesbo – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="Lesbo" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9svos" title="Lésvos – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Lésvos" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9svos" title="Lésvos – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Lésvos" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8sbos" title="Lèsbos – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Lèsbos" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3" title="لزبوس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="لزبوس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%81" title="Лесбос – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Лесбос" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbosi" title="Lesbosi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Lesbosi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbu" title="Lesbu – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Lesbu" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Lesbos" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lezbos" title="Lezbos – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Lezbos" 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Aegean</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seat</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,633 km<sup>2</sup> (631 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2021)<sup id="cite_ref-census21_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census21-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">83,755</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">51/km<sup>2</sup> (130/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Lesbian, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lesvian" class="extiw" title="wikt:Lesvian">Lesvian</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B2" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+2">UTC+2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_European_Time" title="Eastern European Time">EET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B3" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+3">UTC+3</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_European_Summer_Time" title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Greece" title="Postal codes in Greece">Postal code</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">81x xx</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Greece" title="Telephone numbers in Greece">Area code(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">225x0</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lesbos</b> or <b>Lesvos</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Λέσβος</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">Lésvos</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="el-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[ˈlezvos]</a></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Greek_island" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek island">Greek island</a> located in the northeastern <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a>. It has an area of 1,633 km<sup>2</sup> (631 sq mi),<sup id="cite_ref-stat01_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stat01-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with approximately 400 kilometres (249 miles) of <a href="/wiki/Coastline" class="mw-redirect" title="Coastline">coastline</a>, making it the third largest island in <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Mediterranean#By_area" title="List of islands in the Mediterranean">eighth largest</a> in the Mediterranean. It is separated from <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Asia Minor</a> by the narrow <a href="/wiki/Mytilini_Strait" title="Mytilini Strait">Mytilini Strait</a>. On the southeastern coast is the island's capital and largest city, <a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a> (<span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">Μυτιλήνη</span></span>), whose name is also used for the island as a whole. Lesbos is a separate <a href="/wiki/Regional_units_of_Greece" title="Regional units of Greece">regional unit</a> with the seat in Mytilene, which is also the capital of the larger <a href="/wiki/North_Aegean" title="North Aegean">North Aegean</a> region. The region includes the islands of Lesbos, <a href="/wiki/Chios" title="Chios">Chios</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ikaria" title="Ikaria">Ikaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lemnos" title="Lemnos">Lemnos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Samos" title="Samos">Samos</a>. The total population of the island was 83,755 in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-census21_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census21-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A third of the island's inhabitants live in the capital, while the remainder are concentrated in small towns and villages. The largest are <a href="/wiki/Plomari" title="Plomari">Plomari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Agia_Paraskevi,_Lesbos" title="Agia Paraskevi, Lesbos">Agia Paraskevi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polichnitos" title="Polichnitos">Polichnitos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Agiassos" class="mw-redirect" title="Agiassos">Agiassos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eresos" title="Eresos">Eresos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gera,_Lesbos" title="Gera, Lesbos">Gera</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Molyvos" class="mw-redirect" title="Molyvos">Molyvos</a> (the ancient Mythimna). </p><p>According to later Greek writers, Mytilene was founded in the 11th century BC by the family Penthilidae, who arrived from <a href="/wiki/Thessaly" title="Thessaly">Thessaly</a> and ruled the city-state until a popular revolt (590–580 BC) led by <a href="/wiki/Pittacus_of_Mytilene" title="Pittacus of Mytilene">Pittacus of Mytilene</a> ended their rule. In fact, the archaeological and linguistic records may indicate a late <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> arrival of Greek settlers, although references in Late Bronze Age Hittite archives indicate a likely Greek presence then. According to <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, Lesbos was part of the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Priam" title="Priam">Priam</a>, which was based in <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>. In the Middle Ages, it was under <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa" title="Republic of Genoa">Genoese</a> rule. Lesbos was <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_conquest_of_Lesbos" title="Ottoman conquest of Lesbos">conquered</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> in 1462. The Ottomans then ruled the island until the <a href="/wiki/First_Balkan_War" title="First Balkan War">First Balkan War</a> in 1912, when it became part of the Kingdom of Greece. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names">Names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> name <i>Lesbos</i> (pronounced <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>, also <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small"><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a>: </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>) is from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:Λέσβος">Λέσβος</a></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Lésbos</i></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name appears in <a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Bronze Age">Late Bronze Age</a> <a href="/wiki/Hittite_language" title="Hittite language">Hittite</a> texts as <span title="Hittite-language text"><i lang="hit-Latn">Lazpa</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Hittite_language" title="Hittite language">Hittite</a>: <span lang="hit">𒆷𒊍𒉺</span> <i>Lāzpa</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Beckman_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beckman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest reference to Lesbos in Greek texts comes from the <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homeric</a> poems, where it is described as "well-built".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The etymology of the name is obscure,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but may have originally meant <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">forested</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>, <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">wooded</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Modern_Greek" title="Modern Greek">Modern Greek</a>, the letter <a href="/wiki/Beta" title="Beta">beta</a> ⟨β⟩ is pronounced and transliterated as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="el-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[v]</a></span>, thus producing the alternative form <i>Lesvos</i>. An older name for the island that was maintained in <a href="/wiki/Aeolic_Greek" title="Aeolic Greek">Aeolic Greek</a> was <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἴσσα</span></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">Íssa</i></span>). <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a> also refers to the island with the names <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἱμερτή</span></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">himertḗ</i></span>, <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">desirable</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Λασία</span></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Lasía</i></span>, often understood as <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">shaggy</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Greece, Lesbos is commonly referred to as Mytilene (<span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">Μυτιλήνη</span></span>) after its capital.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some suggest that the name derives from the <a href="/wiki/Anatolian_languages" title="Anatolian languages">Anatolian</a> root "muwa" meaning power,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while others have suggested a link to the ancient Greek word μυτίλος (<i>mytilos</i>), meaning <a href="/wiki/Mussel" title="Mussel">mussel</a>, or a type thereof.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ending <i>-ene</i> appears to be the common Greek place name suffix (<i>-enos</i> in <a href="/wiki/Masculine_gender" class="mw-redirect" title="Masculine gender">masculine</a>) indicating provenance.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The island is also sometimes called the "Island of the Poets", alluding to renowned native poets like <a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_of_Mytilene" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcaeus of Mytilene">Alcaeus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-News.gr_2018_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-News.gr_2018-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory">Prehistory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prehistory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lesbos has been inhabited since at least 3000 BC. The oldest artifacts found on the island may date to the late <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleolithic period">Paleolithic period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Important archaeological sites on the island are the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> cave of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kagiani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kagiani (page does not exist)">Kagiani</a>, probably a refuge for shepherds, the Neolithic settlement of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chalakies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chalakies (page does not exist)">Chalakies</a>, and the extensive habitation of Thermi (3000–1000 BC). The largest habitation is found in Lisvori, dating back to 2800–1900 BC, part of which is submerged in shallow coastal waters. </p><p>Lesbos is mentioned in two <a href="/wiki/Hittite_texts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hittite texts">Hittite texts</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Bronze Age">Late Bronze Age</a>, a period during which the island appears to have been a dependent of the <a href="/wiki/Seha_River_Land" title="Seha River Land">Seha River Land</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Manapa-Tarhunta_letter" title="Manapa-Tarhunta letter">Manapa-Tarhunta letter</a> recounts an incident in which a group of purple-dyers from Lesbos defected from the Sehan king.<sup id="cite_ref-AT7_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AT7-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_and_Classical_era">Ancient and Classical era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ancient and Classical era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LESBOS,_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/LESBOS%2C_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg/250px-LESBOS%2C_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/LESBOS%2C_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg/330px-LESBOS%2C_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/LESBOS%2C_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg/500px-LESBOS%2C_Unattributed_Koinon_mint._Circa_510-480_BC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="397" /></a><figcaption>Coin of Lesbos under the <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 510–480 BC</span></figcaption></figure> <p>According to Classical <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, Lesbos was the <a href="/wiki/Patron_god" class="mw-redirect" title="Patron god">patron god</a> of the island. <a href="/wiki/Macareus_of_Rhodes" class="mw-redirect" title="Macareus of Rhodes">Macareus of Rhodes</a> was reputedly the first king whose many daughters bequeathed their names to some of the present larger towns. In Classical myth his sister, <a href="/wiki/Canace" title="Canace">Canace</a>, was killed to have him made king. The place names with female origins are claimed by some<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (December 2019)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> to be much earlier settlements named after local goddesses, who were replaced by gods; however, there is little evidence to support this. <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> refers to the island as "<i>Macaros edos</i>," the seat of Macar. <a href="/wiki/Hittites" title="Hittites">Hittite</a> records from the Late <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> name the island <i>Lazpa</i> and must have considered its population significant enough to allow the Hittites to "borrow their Gods" (presumably idols) to cure their king when the local gods were not forthcoming. It is believed that emigrants from mainland Greece, mainly from <a href="/wiki/Thessaly" title="Thessaly">Thessaly</a>, entered the island in the Late Bronze Age and bequeathed it with the Aeolic dialect of the Greek language, whose written form survives in the poems of <a href="/wiki/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho</a>, amongst others. In classical times, the cities of the island formed a <a href="/wiki/Pentapolis" title="Pentapolis">pentapolis</a>, comprising <a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methymna" class="mw-redirect" title="Methymna">Methymna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antissa" title="Antissa">Antissa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eresos" title="Eresos">Eresos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pyrrha_(Lesbos)" title="Pyrrha (Lesbos)">Pyrrha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pyrrha was destroyed in an earthquake in 231 BC, and Antissa by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a> in 168 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema,_RA,_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg/220px-Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg/330px-Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg/440px-Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_Sappho_and_Alcaeus_-_Walters_37159.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1799" data-file-height="984" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho</a> listens as the poet <a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_of_Mytilene" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcaeus of Mytilene">Alcaeus</a> plays a <a href="/wiki/Kithara" title="Kithara">kithara</a>. (Painting by <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema" title="Lawrence Alma-Tadema">Lawrence Alma-Tadema</a>, 1881)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Two of the <a href="/wiki/Nine_lyric_poets" class="mw-redirect" title="Nine lyric poets">nine lyric poets</a> in the Ancient Greek canon, Sappho and <a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_of_Mytilene" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcaeus of Mytilene">Alcaeus</a>, were from Lesbos. <a href="/wiki/Phanias_of_Eresus" class="mw-redirect" title="Phanias of Eresus">Phanias</a> wrote history. The seminal artistic creativity of those times brings to mind the myth of <a href="/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus">Orpheus</a> to whom <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> gave a <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">lyre</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Muse" class="mw-redirect" title="Muse">Muses</a> taught to play and sing. When Orpheus incurred the wrath of the god Dionysus he was dismembered by the Maenads and of his body parts his head and his lyre found their way to Lesbos where they have "remained" ever since. <a href="/wiki/Pittacus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittacus">Pittacus</a> was one of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece" title="Seven Sages of Greece">Seven Sages of Greece</a>. In classical times, <a href="/wiki/Hellanicus_of_Lesbos" title="Hellanicus of Lesbos">Hellanicus</a> advanced historiography and <a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a>, the father of botany, succeeded <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> as the head of the Lyceum. Aristotle and <a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a> lived there for some time, and it is there that Aristotle began systematic zoological investigations.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg/250px-%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg/330px-%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg/500px-%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CF%85%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%89%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%82_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="2920" /></a><figcaption>View of the Roman aqueduct</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Theophanes_of_Mytilene" title="Theophanes of Mytilene">Theophanes</a>, the historian who recorded <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a>'s campaigns, was also from Lesbos. As the Greek novel <i><a href="/wiki/Daphnis_and_Chloe" title="Daphnis and Chloe">Daphnis and Chloe</a></i> is set on Lesbos, the author, <a href="/wiki/Longus" title="Longus">Longus</a>, is usually assumed to be from the island. The abundant grey pottery ware found on the island and the worship of <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a>, the great mother-goddess of <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>, suggest the cultural continuity of the population from <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> times. When the Persian king <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/Croesus" title="Croesus">Croesus</a> (546 BC) the Ionic Greek cities of Anatolia and the adjacent islands became Persian subjects and remained such until the Persians were defeated by the Greeks at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis" title="Battle of Salamis">Battle of Salamis</a> (480 BC). The island was governed by an <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Archaic_Greece" title="Archaic Greece">archaic times</a>, followed by quasi-democracy in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">classical times</a>. Around this time, <a href="/wiki/Arion" title="Arion">Arion</a> developed the type of poem called <a href="/wiki/Dithyramb" title="Dithyramb">dithyramb</a>, the progenitor of tragedy, and <a href="/wiki/Terpander" title="Terpander">Terpander</a> invented the seven-note musical scale for the lyre. For a short period it was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Delian_League" title="Delian League">Athenian confederacy</a>, its apostasy from which is recounted by <a href="/wiki/Thucydides" title="Thucydides">Thucydides</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Mytilenian_Debate" class="mw-redirect" title="Mytilenian Debate">Mytilenian Debate</a></i>, in Book III of his <i><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War" title="History of the Peloponnesian War">History of the Peloponnesian War</a></i>. In <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic">Hellenistic</a> times, the island belonged to various <a href="/wiki/Diadochi" title="Diadochi">Successor kingdoms</a> until 79 BC when it passed into <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> hands. Remnants of its Roman medieval history are three impressive castles. The cities of Mytilene and Methymna have been bishoprics since the 5th century. By the early 10th century, Mytilene had been raised to the status of a <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_see" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan see">metropolitan see</a>. Methymna achieved the same by the 12th century.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_Ages_and_Byzantine_era">Middle Ages and Byzantine era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Middle Ages and Byzantine era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the Middle Ages, Lesbos belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. In 802, the Byzantine Empress <a href="/wiki/Irene_of_Athens" title="Irene of Athens">Irene</a> was exiled to Lesbos after her deposition and died there.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The island served as a gathering base for the fleet of the rebel <a href="/wiki/Thomas_the_Slav" title="Thomas the Slav">Thomas the Slav</a> in the early 820s.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 9th century, it was heavily raided by the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Crete" title="Emirate of Crete">Emirate of Crete</a>. As a result, the inhabitants of Eresos abandoned their town and settled in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Athos" title="Mount Athos">Mount Athos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 10th century, it was part of the <a href="/wiki/Theme_(Byzantine_district)" title="Theme (Byzantine district)">theme</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea_(theme)" title="Aegean Sea (theme)">Aegean Sea</a>, while in the late 11th century it formed a <span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">dioikesis</i></span> (fiscal district) under a <span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">kourator</i></span> in Mytilene.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1089</span>–1093, the island was briefly occupied by the <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuk</a> Turkish emir <a href="/wiki/Tzachas" title="Tzachas">Tzachas</a>, ruler of <a href="/wiki/Smyrna" title="Smyrna">Smyrna</a>, but he was unable to capture Methymna, which resisted throughout.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 12th century, the island became a frequent target for plundering raids by the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg/250px-Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg/330px-Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg/500px-Denaro_of_Francesco_II_Gattilusio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Denaro of <a href="/wiki/Francesco_II_Gattilusio" title="Francesco II Gattilusio">Francesco II Gattilusio</a>, lord of Lesbos (1384–1403)</figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Crusade" title="Fourth Crusade">Fourth Crusade</a> (1202–1204) the island passed to the <a href="/wiki/Latin_Empire" title="Latin Empire">Latin Empire</a>, but was reconquered by the <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Nicaea" title="Empire of Nicaea">Empire of Nicaea</a> sometime after 1224.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1354, it was granted as a dowry and fief to the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa" title="Republic of Genoa">Genoese</a> <a href="/wiki/Francesco_I_Gattilusio" title="Francesco I Gattilusio">Francesco I Gattilusio</a> by the Byzantine emperor <a href="/wiki/John_V_Palaiologos" title="John V Palaiologos">John V Palaiologos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Gattilusio" title="Gattilusio">Gattilusio</a> family ruled the island for over a century, engaging in fortifications at the <a href="/wiki/Castle_of_Mytilene" title="Castle of Mytilene">Castle of Mytilene</a>, Molyvos (ancient Methymna), and the fort of Agios Theodoros at the site of ancient Antissa.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ottoman_era">Ottoman era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ottoman era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg/250px-Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg/330px-Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg/500px-Metileme_by_Giacomo_Franco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1251" data-file-height="713" /></a><figcaption>Map of Lesbos by Giacomo Franco (1597)</figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" title="Fall of Constantinople">Fall of Constantinople</a> in 1453, the Gattilusi continued to rule Lesbos as tributary vassals to the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, until the island was <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Mytilene_(1462)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Mytilene (1462)">conquered</a> by Sultan <a href="/wiki/Mehmed_II" title="Mehmed II">Mehmed II</a> in September 1462.<sup id="cite_ref-ODB_20-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the capture of Lesbos, the richer inhabitants were moved to <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Constantinople</a> in order to repopulate the city, some boys and girls were taken away into imperial service, but the rest of the population remained. Mehmed II brought in Muslim settlers from <a href="/wiki/Rumelia" title="Rumelia">Rumelia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>, and encouraged his <a href="/wiki/Janissaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Janissaries">Janissaries</a> to settle there and take local wives.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among them was Yakub, the father of the pirate admiral <a href="/wiki/Hayreddin_Barbarossa" title="Hayreddin Barbarossa">Hayreddin Barbarossa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Named Midilli (<span title="Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)-language text"><span lang="ota" dir="rtl">مدللى</span></span>) after its capital, Mytilene, the island became a <span title="Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)-language romanization"><i lang="ota-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sanjak" title="Sanjak">sanjak</a></i></span> (province) of the <a href="/wiki/Eyalet_of_Rumelia" class="mw-redirect" title="Eyalet of Rumelia">Eyalet of Rumelia</a>, and after 1534 of the <a href="/wiki/Eyalet_of_the_Archipelago" title="Eyalet of the Archipelago">Eyalet of the Archipelago</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mytilene and Molova (the Turkish name for Molyvos/Methymna) became seats of <a href="/wiki/Kadi_(Ottoman_Empire)" title="Kadi (Ottoman Empire)">kadis</a>. The cathedral of Mytilene was converted into a mosque. Otherwise, the organization of the local Orthodox church was not altered.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1464, as part of the <a href="/wiki/First_Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Ottoman–Venetian War">First Ottoman–Venetian War</a>, the Venetians under <a href="/w/index.php?title=Orsato_Giustiniani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Orsato Giustiniani (page does not exist)">Orsato Giustiniani</a> occupied the fort of Agios Theodoros, but failed to capture the rest of the island, and destroyed the castle upon their withdrawal. Another attack occurred in 1474, when the Venetians under <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Mocenigo" title="Pietro Mocenigo">Pietro Mocenigo</a> raided the island.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Second_Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Ottoman–Venetian War">Second Ottoman–Venetian War</a>, a Venetian-led fleet of 200 ships <a href="/w/index.php?title=Siege_of_Mytilene_(1501)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Siege of Mytilene (1501) (page does not exist)">besieged Mytilene</a>, but the attack was defeated by <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Eehzade_Korkut" title="Şehzade Korkut">Şehzade Korkut</a>. His father, Sultan <a href="/wiki/Bayezid_II" title="Bayezid II">Bayezid II</a>, then reinforced the Castle of Mytilene with artillery bastions.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The large majority of the island's population remained Greek Christian, although there was a sizeable <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslim</a> community, formed from both immigrants and converts; from 7.4% of households in 1488, it rose to a peak of 19.45% in 1831 before starting to decline in relative terms, reaching 14% in 1892. The Islamization process peaked between 1602 and 1644.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Muslims lived throughout the island. Relations between the two communities were generally good, and Lesbians were often bilingual in both <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish" title="Ottoman Turkish">Ottoman Turkish</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During Ottoman rule, the compulsory <a href="/wiki/Devshirme" title="Devshirme">devshirme</a> system was implemented into the island, where the locals including Muslim landowners and the state representatives negotiated enlisting their teenagers into the Ottoman military by preventing some boys from being levied and sneaking others into the levied groups. For example, in the winter between 1603 and 1604, 105 boys were levied from the island and Lesvos was the only Island that the levy was implemented on the levy of this period.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lesbos prospered from trade, and Mytilene was considered the busiest Ottoman port in the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a>. West European representatives are attested in the city already in 1700, acting as vice-consuls for the consulates in Smyrna. The island exported olives and olive oil, wheat, grapes, raisins and wine, figs, fish, dairy products, acorns, soap, leather and hides, pitch and livestock.<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mytilene itself increased five-fold in population during the Ottoman period. A number of new mosques were erected in the city, and Hayreddin Barbarossa built a <a href="/wiki/Madrasa" title="Madrasa">madrasa</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dervish_lodge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dervish lodge (page does not exist)">dervish lodge</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Imaret" title="Imaret">imaret</a> erected in his hometown.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the early Ottoman buildings, as well as the city walls, were destroyed in the earthquake of 1867.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mevlevi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mevlevi">Mevlevi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bektashi" class="mw-redirect" title="Bektashi">Bektashi</a> lodges are attested, since 1544 for the former, and since 1699 for the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Molyvos, which was the island's second city for most of the Ottoman period, also experienced growth, doubling in size; unlike Mytilene, the Muslim element came to predominate, and comprised over half the population by 1874. Mosques were built and fortifications were undertaken during the long <a href="/wiki/Cretan_War_(1645%E2%80%931669)" title="Cretan War (1645–1669)">Cretan War</a> with Venice. But during the 19th century, the town declined rapidly in importance and number of inhabitants, a decline which continued to modern times.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the mid-18th century, the castle and settlement of <a href="/wiki/Sigri_(village)" title="Sigri (village)">Sigri</a> were established to protect the western coast from pirate attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mitylene_1905.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Mitylene_1905.png/250px-Mitylene_1905.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Mitylene_1905.png/330px-Mitylene_1905.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Mitylene_1905.png/500px-Mitylene_1905.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="201" /></a><figcaption>European warships off <a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a> during the 1905 incident.</figcaption></figure> <p>The relative prosperity of the island—wealth was apparently concentrated among the Greek Christian bourgeoisie rather than the Muslim community<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—contributed to the island not taking part in the <a href="/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence" title="Greek War of Independence">Greek War of Independence</a> in 1821–1829.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the second half of the 19th century, this prosperity became evident in the construction of large and ornamented mansions and churches; the Muslims followed suit, employing the fashionable <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">Neo-Classical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neo-Gothic" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Gothic">Neo-Gothic</a> styles in their own renovations of their mosques, especially after the destructive 1867 earthquake.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Ottoman writer and liberal politician <a href="/wiki/Nam%C4%B1k_Kemal" title="Namık Kemal">Namık Kemal</a> served in the local administration in 1877–1884.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1905, four European powers seized the customs and telegraph offices in the island to pressure the Ottoman government to accept their plan for an international commission that would supervise the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_21-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_era">Modern era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Modern era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lesbos_(1912)" title="Battle of Lesbos (1912)">Battle of Lesbos (1912)</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_modern_Greece" title="History of modern Greece">History of modern Greece</a></div> <p>In 1912, the <a href="/wiki/First_Balkan_War" title="First Balkan War">First Balkan War</a> broke out between <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> over the independence and expansion of Christian Balkan states. Under Rear Admiral <a href="/wiki/Pavlos_Kountouriotis" title="Pavlos Kountouriotis">Pavlos Kountouriotis</a>, Greek naval forces landed at Lesbos on 21 November 1912, commencing the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lesbos_(1912)" title="Battle of Lesbos (1912)">Battle of Lesbos</a>. Kountouriotis sent an ultimatum to secure Mytilene under Greece, which Ottoman officials agreed to, before fleeing the city.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία121_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία121-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The operation to annex the rest of the island was placed under Colonel Apollodoros Syrmakezis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία122–123_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία122–123-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Syrmakezis led 3,175 troops towards an Ottoman camp in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Filia,_Lesbos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Filia, Lesbos (page does not exist)">Filia</a>, reaching the outskirts of the city on 19 December, with an attack planned for the following morning. However, Ottoman military commanders approached Syrmakezis with a request for an armistice and Ottoman surrender was finalised on 21 December 1912, a month after the commencement of the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία123–124_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία123–124-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nine Greek troops were killed and 81 were injured during the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία125_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEΕπίτομη_Ιστορία125-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, the Ottoman Empire denied their previous agreement to cede Lesbos to Greece, until the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1913)" title="Treaty of London (1913)">Treaty of London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHall200071,_101–102_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHall200071,_101–102-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Turkish_population_exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Turkish population exchange">Greco-Turkish population exchange</a> that followed <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_of_1919%E2%80%931922" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922">Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922</a>, the local Muslims left the island and Lesbos returned to a fully Greek Christian population, as it had been before the Ottoman era.<sup id="cite_ref-TDVIA_17-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDVIA-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1922, many <a href="/wiki/Greek_refugees" title="Greek refugees">Greek refugees</a> of the war and the concurrent <a href="/wiki/Greek_genocide" title="Greek genocide">Greek genocide</a> settled in Lesbos. These refugees were mostly women and children as the men were either fighting or had died in battle. A statue of a mother cradling her children named the "Statue of the Asia Minor Mother" was donated by the refugees and erected in Mytilene.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Twenty years later, during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> conducted an invasion of Greece and <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, with both being defeated in 1941 and subsequently divided between the <a href="/wiki/Axis_Powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis Powers">Axis Powers</a>. Lesbos was occupied by Germany until 10 September 1944, when Greece was liberated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETomasevich197552–53_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETomasevich197552–53-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERichter1998616_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichter1998616-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hist_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hist-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The poet <a href="/wiki/Odysseus_Elytis" class="mw-redirect" title="Odysseus Elytis">Odysseus Elytis</a>, the descendant of an old family of Lesbos, received the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tourism">Tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv/220px--The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="89" data-mwtitle="The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_Mória_(Lesvos).ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_(Lesvos).ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora"" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/76/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv/The_Roman_Aquaduct_at_M%C3%B3ria_%28Lesvos%29.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>The Roman Aqueduct at Mória</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kastro_Mytilinis_(11).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Kastro_Mytilinis_%2811%29.jpg/220px-Kastro_Mytilinis_%2811%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Kastro_Mytilinis_%2811%29.jpg/330px-Kastro_Mytilinis_%2811%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Kastro_Mytilinis_%2811%29.jpg/440px-Kastro_Mytilinis_%2811%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Castle_of_Mytilene" title="Castle of Mytilene">Castle of Mytilene</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Lesbos is known to be one of the Greek island touristic hotspots, especially during its tourism season of April, May, June, and July.<sup id="cite_ref-Tourism_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tourism-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mytilene_International_Airport" title="Mytilene International Airport">Mytilene airport</a> management recorded 47,379 tourists visiting Lesbos in its 2015 tourism season. The <a href="#Migrants">refugee crisis</a> has since slowed down tourism to the island, with a 67.89% decrease rate from June 2015 to June 2016. 6,841 Europeans on 47 flights arrived in Lesbos during its 2016 tourism season, compared to July the previous year, which saw 18,373 Europeans fly to the island on 130 flights.<sup id="cite_ref-Tourism_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tourism-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 94 cruise ships full of tourists arrived in Lesbos in 2011 and only one in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the refugee crisis' impact on tourism, Maria Dimitriou, a local shop owner from <a href="/wiki/Mithymna" title="Mithymna">Mithymna</a>, said, "2015 was a very good year for tourism and then, suddenly they started to arrive. The refugees began arriving in mid-July, when the hotels were full of tourists. There were refugees everywhere, lying down with all their trash. And after this, tourism stopped."<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, the head of the Lesbos chamber of commerce, Vangelis Mirsinias, told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jakarta_Post" title="The Jakarta Post">The Jakarta Post</a></i> that the island's administration is trying to "woo back the tourists" and they "want to remind people of how beautiful" Lesbos is."<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He advocated for the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> to help in advertising and also said, "The economy is still paying the impact of the crisis. It will need time and money to change this image."<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lesbos is also a hotspot for <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch tourists</a> and one Dutch tourist said that tourism had halted because people "did not feel like seeing all this misery" of the refugees.<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One local told the publication that residents had become "fed up" and "people are angry towards the government and towards Europe: they told us not to worry, the camps won't last. But it's still there", whilst another business owner explained that he had lost a third of his business and "blames all the negative media attention" for the lack of tourists.<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Jakarta Post</i> also reported that tourists have increased in numbers in recent years, with 63,000 arriving in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-Woo_35-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woo-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> has also damaged the island's tourism industry.<sup id="cite_ref-Lockdowned_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lockdowned-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2022, the Greek government announced a dedication of €2 million in restoring tourism in Lesbos and four other islands.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2022, it was announced that Lesbos would return to the cruise ship industry.<sup id="cite_ref-Cruise_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cruise-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Konstantinos Moutzouris, the governor of the North Aegean Region, which Lesbos is under, explained that the region's administration will run a study "in order to develop cruise tourism on the island."<sup id="cite_ref-Cruise_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cruise-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The deputy governor of tourism, Nikolaos Nyktas, believed that the cruise industry "suits the island and its culture", while the head of development for the project, Ioannis Bras, said that the island could "offer a lot to the cruise market".<sup id="cite_ref-Cruise_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cruise-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In English and most other European languages, including <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, the term <i><a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">lesbian</a></i> is commonly used to refer to homosexual women. This use of the term derives from the poems of <a href="/wiki/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho</a>, who was born in Lesbos and who wrote with powerful emotional content directed toward other women.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to this association, the town of <a href="/wiki/Eresos" title="Eresos">Eresos</a>, her birthplace, is visited frequently by <a href="/wiki/LGBT_tourism" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT tourism">LGBT tourists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lesbos_topo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Lesbos_topo.png/220px-Lesbos_topo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Lesbos_topo.png/330px-Lesbos_topo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Lesbos_topo.png/440px-Lesbos_topo.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1175" /></a><figcaption>Topography of Lesbos</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lesbos2022OSM.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Lesbos2022OSM.png/250px-Lesbos2022OSM.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Lesbos2022OSM.png/330px-Lesbos2022OSM.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Lesbos2022OSM.png/500px-Lesbos2022OSM.png 2x" data-file-width="5122" data-file-height="4366" /></a><figcaption>Detailed map of Lesbos</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Olympos_lesbos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Olympos_lesbos.jpg/250px-Olympos_lesbos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Olympos_lesbos.jpg/330px-Olympos_lesbos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Olympos_lesbos.jpg/500px-Olympos_lesbos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="667" /></a><figcaption>Mount Olympus’ peak rises 967 metres over Lesbos</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg/250px-Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg/330px-Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg/500px-Agiassos_vanaf_de_Olympos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Agiasos" title="Agiasos">Agiasos</a> village</figcaption></figure> <p>Lesbos lies in the far east of the Aegean sea, facing the Turkish coast (<a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Edremit" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf of Edremit">Gulf of Edremit</a>) from the north and east; at the narrowest point, the <a href="/wiki/Mytilini_Strait" title="Mytilini Strait">Mytilini Strait</a> is about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) wide. In late Palaeolithic/Mesolithic times it was joined to the Anatolian mainland before the end of the <a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period" title="Last Glacial Period">Last Glacial Period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The shape of the island is roughly triangular, but it is deeply intruded by the gulfs of <a href="/wiki/Kalloni#Bay_and_lagoon" title="Kalloni">Kalloni</a>, with an entry on the southern coast, and of <a href="/wiki/Gera,_Lesbos#Bay_of_Gera" title="Gera, Lesbos">Gera</a>, in the southeast.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The island is forested and mountainous with two large peaks, Mount Lepetymnos at 968 m (3,176 ft) and Mount Olympus at 967 m (3,173 ft) (not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Mount Olympus</a> in Thessaly on the Greek mainland), dominating its northern and central sections.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The island's volcanic origin is manifested in several <a href="/wiki/Hot_spring" title="Hot spring">hot springs</a> and the two gulfs. Lesbos is verdant, aptly named <i>Emerald Island</i>, with a greater variety of flora than expected for the island's size. Eleven million <a href="/wiki/Olive_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Olive tree">olive trees</a> cover 40% of the island, together with other fruit trees. Forests of Mediterranean <a href="/wiki/Pine" title="Pine">pines</a>, chestnut trees and some <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oaks</a> occupy 20%, and the remainder is <a href="/wiki/Scrubland" class="mw-redirect" title="Scrubland">scrub</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grassland" title="Grassland">grassland</a> or urban. The island is also one of the best in the world for bird watching.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The island has a <a href="/wiki/Hot-summer_Mediterranean_climate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot-summer Mediterranean climate">hot-summer Mediterranean climate</a> (<i>Csa</i> in the <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a>). The mean annual temperature is 18 °C (64 °F), and the mean annual rainfall is 750 mm (30 in). Its exceptional sunshine makes it one of the sunniest islands in the Aegean Sea. Snow and very low temperatures are rare. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Mytilene (1955–2010 averages) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.2<br />(68.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B17; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.3<br />(70.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.0<br />(87.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.0<br />(95.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF0A00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">40.0<br />(104.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF0D00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39.5<br />(103.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF1600; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">38.2<br />(100.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF2400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.2<br />(97.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.8<br />(87.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.0<br />(80.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8206; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.5<br />(72.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF0A00; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">40.0<br />(104.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFC994; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.2<br />(54.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.8<br />(55.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15<br />(59) </td> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.3<br />(66.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.3<br />(75.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.9<br />(84.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(88) </td> <td style="background: #FF4900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.8<br />(87.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(72) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.4<br />(63.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFBE7D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.9<br />(57.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1C; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">20.9<br />(69.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFDCBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5<br />(49.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9<br />(49.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6<br />(52.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.6<br />(60.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.2<br />(68.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.7<br />(76.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.6<br />(79.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.1<br />(79.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8001; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.9<br />(73.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9E3E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.5<br />(65.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFBB77; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.3<br />(57.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFD0A1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.3<br />(52.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA44A; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">17.6<br />(63.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.8<br />(44.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.0<br />(44.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE5CC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.2<br />(46.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFCF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.4<br />(52.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFB46A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.3<br />(59.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF962E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.6<br />(67.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(72) </td> <td style="background: #FF8811; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.7<br />(71.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9D3C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.6<br />(65.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15<br />(59) </td> <td style="background: #FFCF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.4<br />(52.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.7<br />(47.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFBF80; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">13.7<br />(56.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.4<br />(24.1) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.2<br />(29.8) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.0<br />(39.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4C9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4<br />(47.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.0<br />(51.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB163; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.8<br />(60.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.9<br />(51.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFFAF5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.2<br />(41.4) </td> <td style="background: #EEEEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.4<br />(34.5) </td> <td style="background: #DFDFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.4<br />(29.5) </td> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−4.4<br />(24.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #5959FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">111<br />(4.4) </td> <td style="background: #6161FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">96.2<br />(3.79) </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.1<br />(2.76) </td> <td style="background: #BABAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.8<br />(1.76) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.8<br />(0.78) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.4<br />(0.25) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2<br />(0.1) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.7<br />(0.11) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.4<br />(0.49) </td> <td style="background: #BDBDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.9<br />(1.73) </td> <td style="background: #6969FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">97.1<br />(3.82) </td> <td style="background: #3030FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">138.7<br />(5.46) </td> <td style="background: #AAAAFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">670.6<br />(26.40) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #8F8FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.0 </td> <td style="background: #9191FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1 </td> <td style="background: #AEAEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.5 </td> <td style="background: #C1C1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.8 </td> <td style="background: #DDDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.7 </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8 </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4 </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4 </td> <td style="background: #EEEEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3 </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.3 </td> <td style="background: #A8A8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.8 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0 </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">54.1 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000EE; 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Lesbos contains one of the few known <a href="/wiki/Petrified_wood" title="Petrified wood">petrified forests</a>, called the <a href="/wiki/Petrified_forest_of_Lesbos" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrified forest of Lesbos">Petrified forest of Lesbos</a>, and it has been declared a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Protected_Natural_Monument&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Protected Natural Monument (page does not exist)">Protected Natural Monument</a>. Fossilised plants have been found in many localities on the western parts of the island. The fossilised forest was formed during the Late <a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligocene</a> to Lower–Middle <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a>, as determined by the intense <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_activity" class="mw-redirect" title="Volcanic activity">volcanic activity</a> in the area. Neogene <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_rock" title="Volcanic rock">volcanic rocks</a> dominate the central and western part of the island, comprising <a href="/wiki/Andesite" title="Andesite">andesites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dacite" title="Dacite">dacites</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhyolite" title="Rhyolite">rhyolites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ignimbrite" title="Ignimbrite">ignimbrite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pyroclastic_rock" title="Pyroclastic rock">pyroclastics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuff" title="Tuff">tuffs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_ash" title="Volcanic ash">volcanic ash</a>. The products of the volcanic activity covered the <a href="/wiki/Vegetation" title="Vegetation">vegetation</a> of the area and the <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossilization</a> process took place during favourable conditions. The fossilized plants are silicified remnants of a <a href="/wiki/Sub-tropical" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-tropical">sub-tropical</a> forest that existed on the northwest part of the island 20–15 million years ago. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg/220px-%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg/330px-%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg/440px-%CE%9B%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%82_-_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1594" /></a><figcaption>The church of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Therapon_(Mytilene)" title="Saint Therapon (Mytilene)">Saint Therapon</a> in Mytilene by night</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petrified_forest_of_Lesbos" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrified forest of Lesbos">Petrified forest of Lesbos</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_of_Assumption_of_Theotokos,_Mytilene&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Catholic Church of Assumption of Theotokos, Mytilene (page does not exist)">Catholic Church of Theotokos</a>, where part of the relics of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Valentine" title="Saint Valentine">Saint Valentine</a> are kept</li> <li>Castle of Molyvos (Mithymna)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_of_Mytilene" title="Castle of Mytilene">Castle of Mytilene</a></li> <li>Castle of Sigri</li> <li>Church of Panagia Agiasos</li> <li>Monastery of Agios Raphael</li> <li>Monastery of Taxiarchis</li> <li>Roman Aqueduct of Lesbos (Mória)</li> <li>The Bridge at Kremasti</li> <li>Early Christian Basilica of Agios Andreas in Eressos</li> <li>Temple of Klopedi</li> <li>Christian Temple of Chalinados</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messon_(Lesbos)" title="Messon (Lesbos)">Ancient Sanctuary of Messa</a></li> <li>Acropolis of Ancient Pyrra</li> <li>Monastery of Ipsilou</li> <li>Monastery of Limonas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_(Mytilene)" title="Statue of Liberty (Mytilene)">Statue of Liberty (Mytilene)</a></li> <li>Ouzo Museum "The World of Ouzo"<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Plomari" title="Plomari">Plomari</a></li> <li>Barbayannis Ouzo Museum (Plomari)</li> <li>The Mosque in Parakila</li> <li>Catacomb of Mary Magdalene</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sourlangas_Leather_Factory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sourlangas Leather Factory (page does not exist)">Sourlangas Leather Factory</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Endangered_sites">Endangered sites</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Endangered sites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Twelve historic churches on the island were listed together on the 2008 <a href="/wiki/World_Monuments_Fund" title="World Monuments Fund">World Monuments Fund</a>'s <a href="/wiki/World_Monuments_Watch" class="mw-redirect" title="World Monuments Watch">Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites</a> in the world. The churches date from the Early Christian Period to the 19th century. Exposure to the elements, outmoded conservation methods, and increased tourism are all threats to the structures. The following are the 12 churches:<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Katholikon of Moni Perivolis</li> <li>Early Christian Basilica Agios Andreas Eressos</li> <li>Early Christian Basilica Afentelli Eressos</li> <li>Church of Agios Stephanos Mantamados</li> <li>Katholikon of Moni Taxiarchon Kato Tritos</li> <li>Katholikon of Moni Damandriou Polichnitos</li> <li>Metamorphosi Soteros Church in Papiana</li> <li>Church of Agios Georgios Anemotia</li> <li>Church of Agios Nikolaos Petra</li> <li>Monastery of Ipsilou</li> <li>Church of Agios Ioannis Kerami</li> <li>Church of Taxiarchon Vatousa</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lesbos is a separate <a href="/wiki/Regional_units_of_Greece" title="Regional units of Greece">regional unit</a> of the <a href="/wiki/North_Aegean" title="North Aegean">North Aegean</a> region. Since 2019, it consists of two <a href="/wiki/Communities_and_Municipalities_of_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities and Municipalities of Greece">municipalities</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Lesbos" title="West Lesbos">West Lesbos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gazette_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gazette-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Kallikratis_Programme" title="Kallikratis Programme">Kallikratis government reform</a> and 2019, there was one single municipality on the island: Lesbos, created out of the 13 former municipalities on the island. At the same reform, the regional unit Lesbos was created out of part of the former <a href="/wiki/Lesbos_Prefecture" title="Lesbos Prefecture">Lesbos Prefecture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kallikratis_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kallikratis-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%CE%A3%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B1_%CE%95%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%8D_%CE%98%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C_%CE%92%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%BB%CE%B1.jpg/500px-%CE%A3%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B1_%CE%95%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%8D_%CE%98%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C_%CE%92%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%BB%CE%B1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Skala of <a href="/wiki/Eresos-Antissa" title="Eresos-Antissa">Eresos-Antissa</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p>The municipality of Mytilene consists of the following municipal units (former municipalities): </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agiasos" title="Agiasos">Agiasos</a> (Αγιάσος)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evergetoulas" title="Evergetoulas">Evergetoulas</a> (Ευεργέτουλας)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gera,_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Gera, Greece">Gera</a> (Γέρα)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loutropoli_Thermis" title="Loutropoli Thermis">Loutropoli Thermis</a> (Λουτρόπολη Θερμής)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a> (Μυτιλήνη)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plomari" title="Plomari">Plomari</a> (Πλωμάρι)</li></ul> <p>The municipality of West Lesbos consists of the following municipal units: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agia_Paraskevi,_Lesbos" title="Agia Paraskevi, Lesbos">Agia Paraskevi</a> (Αγία Παρασκευή)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eresos-Antissa" title="Eresos-Antissa">Eresos-Antissa</a> (Ερεσός-Άντισσα)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalloni" title="Kalloni">Kalloni</a> (Καλλονή)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mantamados" title="Mantamados">Mantamados</a> (Μανταμάδος)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithymna" title="Mithymna">Mithymna</a> (Μήθυμνα)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petra,_Lesbos" title="Petra, Lesbos">Petra</a> (Πέτρα)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polichnitos" title="Polichnitos">Polichnitos</a> (Πολίχνιτος)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lebosprefecture.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lebosprefecture.jpg/220px-Lebosprefecture.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lebosprefecture.jpg/330px-Lebosprefecture.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Lebosprefecture.jpg/440px-Lebosprefecture.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1067" /></a><figcaption>The building of the former Lesbos Prefecture, and now of the Lesbos Regional Unit</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ouzo_-_plomari.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Ouzo_-_plomari.jpg/80px-Ouzo_-_plomari.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Ouzo_-_plomari.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="102" data-file-height="334" /></a><figcaption>A bottle of <i><a href="/wiki/Ouzo_Plomari" title="Ouzo Plomari">Ouzo Plomari</a></i> of Lesbos</figcaption></figure> <p>The economy of Lesbos is essentially <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agricultural</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Olive_oil" title="Olive oil">olive oil</a> being the main source of <a href="/wiki/Income" title="Income">income</a>. Tourism in <a href="/wiki/Mytilene" title="Mytilene">Mytilene</a>, encouraged by its international airport and the coastal towns of <a href="/wiki/Petra,_Lesbos" title="Petra, Lesbos">Petra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plomari" title="Plomari">Plomari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Molyvos" class="mw-redirect" title="Molyvos">Molyvos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eresos" title="Eresos">Eresos</a>, contributes substantially to the island's economy. <a href="/wiki/Fishing" title="Fishing">Fishing</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Manufacturing" title="Manufacturing">manufacture</a> of <a href="/wiki/Soap" title="Soap">soap</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ouzo" title="Ouzo">ouzo</a>, the Greek national <a href="/wiki/Liqueur" title="Liqueur">liqueur</a>, are the remaining sources of income. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Migrants">Migrants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Migrants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Pagani_Detention_Center" title="Pagani Detention Center">Pagani Detention Center</a></div> <p>Due to its proximity to the Turkish mainland, Lesbos is one of the Greek islands most affected by the <a href="/wiki/European_migrant_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="European migrant crisis">European migrant crisis</a> that started in 2015. <a href="/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Refugees of the Syrian Civil War">Refugees of the Syrian Civil War</a> came to the island in multiple vessels every day.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of June 2018, 8,000 refugees were trapped when a deal between Europe and Turkey removed their route to the continent in 2016.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (May 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> After that, living conditions deteriorated and the possibility of movement to Europe dimmed. <a href="/wiki/Moria_Refugee_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Moria Refugee Camp">Moria Refugee Camp</a> was the largest of the refugee camps and held twice as many people as it was designed to accommodate.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By May 2020, Moria had 17,421 refugees living there.<sup id="cite_ref-Lockdowned_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lockdowned-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 September 2020, thousands of migrants fled from the overcrowded Moria camp after a fire broke out. At least 25 firefighters, with 10 engines, were battling the flames both inside and outside the facility.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A smaller-scale facility, the <a href="/wiki/Pikpa_camp" title="Pikpa camp">Pikpa camp</a> catered for a segment of the refugee population until its closure in October 2020, whereupon the occupants were transferred to the "old" <a href="/wiki/Kara_Tepe_Refugee_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara Tepe Refugee Camp">Kara Tepe Refugee Camp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Greek government maintains that the fires were started deliberately by migrants protesting that the camp had been put in lockdown due to a <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> outbreak amongst the migrants in the camp. On 16 September 2020, four Afghan men were formally charged with arson for allegedly starting the fire.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two other migrants, both aged 17, which is below the age of full adult criminal responsibility in Greece, were also allegedly involved in starting the fire, and were held in police detention on the mainland.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the closure of the Moria camp, a <a href="/wiki/Temporary_Kara_Tepe_Refugee_Camp" title="Temporary Kara Tepe Refugee Camp">temporary facility</a> was rapidly set up at Kara Tepe.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Greek government announced in November 2020 that a new closed reception centre will be built in the Vastria area near Nees Kydonies, on the border between Mytilene and Western Lesbos, and will be completed by late 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Cuisine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg/180px-Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg/270px-Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg/360px-Honig_-_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9_aus_Mesotopos_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Honey from Lesbos</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg/250px-%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg/330px-%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg/500px-%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9_7719.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3563" data-file-height="2227" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ladotyri_Mytilinis" title="Ladotyri Mytilinis">Ladotyri Mytilinis</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Local specialties: </p> <ul><li><i>Chachles</i>, type of <a href="/wiki/Tarhana" title="Tarhana">tarhana</a></li> <li><i>Kydonato</i>, meat with quinces</li> <li><i>Revithato</i>, meat with chickpeas</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sardines" class="mw-redirect" title="Sardines">Sardeles</a></i> from <a href="/wiki/Kalloni" title="Kalloni">Kalloni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ladotyri_Mytilinis" title="Ladotyri Mytilinis">Ladotyri Mytilinis</a>, cheese</li> <li><i>Selinato</i>, meat with celery</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sfougato&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sfougato (page does not exist)">Sfougato</a></i>, omelette</li> <li><i>Skafoudes</i>, stuffed eggplants</li> <li><i>Sougania</i>, stuffed onions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouzo" title="Ouzo">Ouzo</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Platseda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Platseda (page does not exist)">Platseda</a></i> (dessert)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Finikia" class="mw-redirect" title="Finikia">Finikia</a></i> (dessert)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amygdalota" title="Amygdalota">Amygdalota</a></i></li> <li><i>Retseli</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Films shot on the island include <i><a href="/wiki/Daphnis_and_Chloe_(film)" title="Daphnis and Chloe (film)">Daphnis and Chloe</a></i> (1931) by <a href="/wiki/Orestis_Laskos" title="Orestis Laskos">Orestis Laskos</a>, <i>The tree under the sea</i> (1985) by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philippe_Muyl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philippe Muyl (page does not exist)">Philippe Muyl</a> and <i>One Love and the Other</i> (1994) by <a href="/wiki/Eva_Bergman" title="Eva Bergman">Eva Bergman</a>.</li> <li>Lesbos is depicted in <i><a href="/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_Odyssey" title="Assassin's Creed Odyssey">Assassin's Creed Odyssey</a></i> as the northeasternmost Aegean Island, the center of the island is where the player's character can encounter <a href="/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main football clubs in the island are <a href="/wiki/Aiolikos_F.C." title="Aiolikos F.C.">Aiolikos F.C.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalloni_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Kalloni F.C.">Kalloni F.C.</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sappho_Lesvou_F.C.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sappho Lesvou F.C. (page does not exist)">Sappho Lesvou F.C.</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Frequency </th> <th>Name </th> <th>On air since </th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td>87.5 MHz </td> <td>Radio Kalloni </td> <td>1996 </td> <td>News, <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek music</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>88.2 MHz </td> <td>Love Mitilini </td> <td>2003 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">Easy listening</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>90.0 MHz </td> <td>Radio Mitilini </td> <td>1989 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek</a> pop and rock music (formerly broadcast on 107.6) </td></tr> <tr> <td>91.6 MHz </td> <td>Rythmos Radio </td> <td>2005 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek</a> pop music </td></tr> <tr> <td>92.3 MHz </td> <td><a href="/wiki/First_Programme" title="First Programme">First Programme</a> </td> <td>1938 </td> <td>National; news and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; first station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>92.8 MHz </td> <td>Aeolos FM 92,8 </td> <td>1989 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/La%C3%AFko" title="Laïko">laïko</a>-<a href="/wiki/Rebetiko" title="Rebetiko">rebetiko</a>-<a href="/wiki/%C3%89ntekhno" title="Éntekhno">éntekhno</a> music </td></tr> <tr> <td>93.2 MHz </td> <td>Astra FM 93,2 </td> <td>2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek music</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>93.3 MHz </td> <td>Foni tis Ecclesias </td> <td>2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodox</a> religious radio; rebroadcasting with <i>Ecclesia FM 89,5</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>93.6 MHz </td> <td>Intro Radio Lesvos </td> <td>2021 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amateur_radio" title="Amateur radio">Amateur radio</a> with <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek</a> pop music; located from <a href="/wiki/Polichnitos" title="Polichnitos">Polichnitos</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>94.3 MHz </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Second_Programme" title="Second Programme">Second Programme</a> </td> <td>1952 </td> <td>National; <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek music</a>; second station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>96.5 MHz </td> <td>ERT Aegean </td> <td>1989 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; Local station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>96.8 MHz </td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.minorekalloni.gr/">Minore FM 96,8</a> </td> <td>1985 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek music</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">Pop music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">Dance music</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>97.2 MHz </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Third_Programme_(ERT)" title="Third Programme (ERT)">Third Programme</a> </td> <td>1954 </td> <td>National; classical music; third station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>97.6 MHz </td> <td>Local 9,72 Mitilini </td> <td>1990 </td> <td>News, <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a> and music </td></tr> <tr> <td>98.6 MHz </td> <td>Best FM Lesvos </td> <td>1992 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek</a> and foreign music </td></tr> <tr> <td>99.0 MHz </td> <td>Sto Nisi 99 FM </td> <td>2019 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>99.4 MHz </td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ertnews.gr/news/perifereiakoi-stathmoi/voreio_aigaio/">ERT Aegean</a> </td> <td>1989 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; Local station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>99.8 MHz </td> <td>SKAI Aegean </td> <td>2009 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>101.5 MHz </td> <td>Slam 101.5 </td> <td>2019 </td> <td>Foreign music </td></tr> <tr> <td>103.0 MHz </td> <td>ERT Aegean </td> <td>1989 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; Local station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>104.4 MHz </td> <td>ERT Aegean </td> <td>1989 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; Local station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>104.8 MHz </td> <td>Peiraiki Ecclesia </td> <td>1988 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodox</a> religious radio station by the <i>Church of <a href="/wiki/Piraeus" title="Piraeus">Piraeus</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>105.8 MHz </td> <td>Peiraiki Ecclesia </td> <td>1988 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodox</a> religious radio station by the <i>Church of <a href="/wiki/Piraeus" title="Piraeus">Piraeus</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">105.9 MHz </td> <td>ERT Aegean </td> <td>1989 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; Local station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Second_Programme" title="Second Programme">Second Programme</a> </td> <td>1952 </td> <td>National; <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek music</a>; second station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>106.4 MHz </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Third_Programme_(ERT)" title="Third Programme (ERT)">Third Programme</a> </td> <td>1954 </td> <td>National; classical music; third station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>106.9 MHz </td> <td>SKAI Aegean </td> <td>2009 </td> <td>News and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>107.4 MHz </td> <td>Peiraiki Ecclesia </td> <td>1988 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodox</a> religious radio station by the <i>Church of <a href="/wiki/Piraeus" title="Piraeus">Piraeus</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>107.7 MHz </td> <td>Radio Kalloni </td> <td>1996 </td> <td>News, <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Greece" title="Music of Greece">Greek music</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>107.9 MHz </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ERA_Sport" title="ERA Sport">ERA Sport</a> </td> <td>1993 </td> <td>National; <a href="/wiki/Sport" title="Sport">sports</a> and <a href="/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio">talk</a>; fourth station of <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation">Greek state radio</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="TV">TV</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: TV"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A regional television station operates from the city of Mytilene; Aeolos TV.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main printed newspapers of the city are <i>Empros</i>, <i>Ta Nea tis Lesvou</i>, and <i>Dimokratis</i>. Online newspapers include <i>Aeolos</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-auto_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Stonisi</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Emprosnet</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Lesvosnews</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Lesvospost</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Kalloninews</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_residents">Notable residents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Notable residents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elytis,_Odysseas_(1911-1996).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg/160px-Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg/240px-Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg/320px-Elytis%2C_Odysseas_%281911-1996%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1563" data-file-height="1563" /></a><figcaption>The Nobel Prize winner in Literature, poet <a href="/wiki/Odysseas_Elytis" title="Odysseas Elytis">Odysseas Elytis</a> (Alepoudellis) was from Lesbos</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lesches" title="Lesches">Lesches</a> (8th or 7th century BC), early poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho</a> (7th and 6th centuries BC), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terpander" title="Terpander">Terpander</a> (7th century BC), poet and <a href="/wiki/Citharede" class="mw-redirect" title="Citharede">citharede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_of_Mytilene" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcaeus of Mytilene">Alcaeus of Mytilene</a> (7th century BC), poet and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arion" title="Arion">Arion</a> (7th century BC), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> (384–322 BC), philosopher, was born in <a href="/wiki/Chalkidike" class="mw-redirect" title="Chalkidike">Chalkidike</a> but lived for a time on the island.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a> (370–285 BC), philosopher and botanist, successor to Aristotle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophanes_of_Mytilene" title="Theophanes of Mytilene">Theophanes of Mytilene</a> (1st century BC), ancient Greek historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longus" title="Longus">Longus</a> (2nd century AD), ancient Greek author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theoctiste_of_Lesbos" class="mw-redirect" title="Theoctiste of Lesbos">Theoctiste of Lesbos</a> (9th century), hermit saint</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomais_of_Lesbos" title="Thomais of Lesbos">Thomais of Lesbos</a> (c. 909–947), lay woman saint</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_IX_Monomachos" title="Constantine IX Monomachos">Constantine IX Monomachos</a> Byzantine emperor (1042–1055), resident of Mytilene prior to accession.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_of_Mytilene" title="Christopher of Mytilene">Christopher of Mytilene</a> (11th century), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doukas_(historian)" title="Doukas (historian)">Doukas</a> (c. 1400 – after 1462), Byzantine historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayreddin_Barbarossa" title="Hayreddin Barbarossa">Hayreddin Barbarossa</a> (1470s–1546), Ottoman admiral</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrios_Bernardakis" title="Demetrios Bernardakis">Demetrios Bernardakis</a> (1833–1907), dramatist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamburi_Ali_Efendi" title="Tamburi Ali Efendi">Tamburi Ali Efendi</a> (1836–1902), Turkish classical composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregorios_Bernardakis" title="Gregorios Bernardakis">Gregorios Bernardakis</a> (1848–1925), classical philologist and palaeographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgios_Jakobides" title="Georgios Jakobides">Georgios Jakobides</a> (1853–1932), painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%BCseyin_Hilmi_Pasha" title="Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha">Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha</a> (1 April 1855 – 1922), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophilos_Hatzimihail" title="Theophilos Hatzimihail">Theophilos Hatzimihail</a> (c. 1870–1934), painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Djemal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmed Djemal">Ahmed Djemal</a> (1872–1922), Ottoman commander, politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgios_Emmanouil_Kaldis" title="Georgios Emmanouil Kaldis">Georgios Emmanouil Kaldis</a> (1875–1953) lawyer, journalist and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A9riade" title="Tériade">Tériade</a> (1889–1983), art critic, patron, and publisher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermon_di_Giovanno" title="Hermon di Giovanno">Hermon di Giovanno</a> (c. 1900–1968), painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseas_Elytis" title="Odysseas Elytis">Odysseas Elytis</a> (1911–1996), poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1979</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratis_Myrivilis" title="Stratis Myrivilis">Stratis Myrivilis</a> (1890–1969), writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Venezis" title="Elias Venezis">Elias Venezis</a> (1904–1973), writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tzeli_Hadjidimitriou" title="Tzeli Hadjidimitriou">Tzeli Hadjidimitriou</a> (b. 1962), photographer and writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantinos_Kenteris" title="Konstantinos Kenteris">Kostas Kenteris</a> (b. 1973), athlete (running, 200 meters), Gold Olympic medal Sydney 2000, World and European championship gold medal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Martinez_(graffiti_artist)" title="Alex Martinez (graffiti artist)">Alex Martinez</a>, graffiti artist, illustrator, muralist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steffen_Streich" title="Steffen Streich">Steffen Streich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ultra-distance_cycling" title="Ultra-distance cycling">ultra-endurance cyclist</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fire_ship_by_Volanakis.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title=""The burning of the Ottoman frigate at Eresos by Dimitrios Papanikolis" by Konstantinos Volanakis"><img alt=""The burning of the Ottoman frigate at Eresos by Dimitrios Papanikolis" by Konstantinos Volanakis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Fire_ship_by_Volanakis.jpg/120px-Fire_ship_by_Volanakis.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Fire_ship_by_Volanakis.jpg/250px-Fire_ship_by_Volanakis.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1260" data-file-height="754" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">"The burning of the Ottoman frigate at <a href="/wiki/Eresos" title="Eresos">Eresos</a> by <a href="/wiki/Dimitrios_Papanikolis" title="Dimitrios Papanikolis">Dimitrios Papanikolis</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Konstantinos_Volanakis" title="Konstantinos Volanakis">Konstantinos Volanakis</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lesbos._Port_Authority_Building_Mytilene,_c._1910.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ottoman flag in Mytilene in the last days of the Ottoman period"><img alt="Ottoman flag in Mytilene in the last days of the Ottoman period" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Lesbos._Port_Authority_Building_Mytilene%2C_c._1910.jpg/120px-Lesbos._Port_Authority_Building_Mytilene%2C_c._1910.jpg" decoding="async" width="77" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Lesbos._Port_Authority_Building_Mytilene%2C_c._1910.jpg/250px-Lesbos._Port_Authority_Building_Mytilene%2C_c._1910.jpg 2x" data-file-width="443" data-file-height="693" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ottoman flag in Mytilene in the last days of the Ottoman period</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene,_1912.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="Greek troops land at Mytilene, 1912"><img alt="Greek troops land at Mytilene, 1912" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene%2C_1912.jpeg/120px-Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene%2C_1912.jpeg" decoding="async" width="120" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene%2C_1912.jpeg/180px-Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene%2C_1912.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene%2C_1912.jpeg/240px-Greek_troops_land_at_Mytilene%2C_1912.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2739" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Greek troops land at Mytilene, 1912</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Petra_town.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Petra, Lesbos"><img alt="Petra, Lesbos" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Petra_town.JPG/120px-Petra_town.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Petra_town.JPG/250px-Petra_town.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Petra,_Lesbos" title="Petra, Lesbos">Petra, Lesbos</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Extraction of the salt in Lesbos"><img alt="Extraction of the salt in Lesbos" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg/120px-After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg/180px-After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg/240px-After_the_scraping_of_the_salt_Kalloni.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Extraction of the salt in Lesbos</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%86%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%88%CE%B7_%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Museum of industrial olive oil production, Agia Paraskevi"><img alt="Museum of industrial olive oil production, Agia Paraskevi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/%CE%86%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%88%CE%B7_%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC.jpg/120px-%CE%86%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%88%CE%B7_%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/%CE%86%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%88%CE%B7_%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC.jpg/250px-%CE%86%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%88%CE%B7_%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AC.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Museum of industrial olive oil production, Agia Paraskevi</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Limonas monastery"><img alt="Limonas monastery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG/120px-Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG/180px-Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG/240px-Lesbos_Limonas011.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Saint_Ignatios_Monastery" title="Saint Ignatios Monastery">Limonas monastery</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AE_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%85_(2)_%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A3%CE%92%CE%9F%CE%A3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Taxiarchis Monastery"><img alt="Taxiarchis Monastery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AE_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%85_%282%29_%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A3%CE%92%CE%9F%CE%A3.jpg/120px-%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AE_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%85_%282%29_%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A3%CE%92%CE%9F%CE%A3.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AE_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%85_%282%29_%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A3%CE%92%CE%9F%CE%A3.jpg/250px-%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AE_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BE%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%85_%282%29_%CE%9B%CE%95%CE%A3%CE%92%CE%9F%CE%A3.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="6583" data-file-height="4389" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Taxiarchis Monastery</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lesbos_Agiassos04.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Panagia Church in Agiasos"><img alt="Panagia Church in Agiasos" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Lesbos_Agiassos04.JPG/120px-Lesbos_Agiassos04.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Lesbos_Agiassos04.JPG/250px-Lesbos_Agiassos04.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Panagia Church in <a href="/wiki/Agiasos" title="Agiasos">Agiasos</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbos&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adobogiona" title="Adobogiona">Adobogiona</a> – an inscription in Lesbos honors this <a href="/wiki/Celt" class="mw-redirect" title="Celt">Celtic</a> princess</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeolic_Greek" title="Aeolic Greek">Aeolic Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assos" title="Assos">Assos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesbian_rule" title="Lesbian rule">Lesbian rule</a> – historically a flexible lead mason's rule associated with Lesbos</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesbian_wine" class="mw-redirect" title="Lesbian wine">Lesbian wine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Greece" title="List of islands of Greece">List of islands of Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_traditional_Greek_place_names" class="mw-redirect" title="List of traditional Greek place names">List of traditional Greek place names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Aegean" title="University of the Aegean">University of the Aegean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_regions_of_Anatolia" title="Ancient regions of Anatolia">Ancient regions of Anatolia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cyclades" title="Cyclades">Cyclades</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amorgos" title="Amorgos">Amorgos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anafi" title="Anafi">Anafi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananes" title="Ananes">Ananes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andros" title="Andros">Andros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimilos" title="Antimilos">Antimilos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiparos" title="Antiparos">Antiparos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daskalio" title="Daskalio">Daskalio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Despotiko" title="Despotiko">Despotiko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donousa" title="Donousa">Donousa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folegandros" title="Folegandros">Folegandros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyaros" title="Gyaros">Gyaros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ios" 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