Evias


The county north of the defined channels of Trikeri and Oreon that divides the peninsula of Magnesia (Thessaly) and Fthiotida. Bordering the northwest within Maliakos, Evian (North and South) and butterfly, which divides the Locris, Eastern Boeotia and Attica. Southeast bordering the Straits of Kafirea, which separates the island of Andros and the east bordering the Aegean Sea. The most narrow part of Euboean Gulf, the Strait of Evripou offered for the passage of the Central Greece on the island of Evia. It is 40 meters wide and 8.5 meters deep and is known by the tidal phenomena presented
Evia inhabited since prehistoric times. Old people considered settlers from Thessaly and then Ionians, Dorians Aeolians and the Peloponnese. In ancient times (8th-7th century. BC) the two main cities of the island, Chalkis and Eretria, a leader in establishing colonies on the coast of Thrace, Sicily, Italy and the Aegean. By the end of the Persian Wars all Euboea joined in Athens. Later dominated by Macedonians, Romans and Byzantines. At Franks (1209) created several baronies here, but there prevail after 1366 - the Venetians who gave the island the medieval name Negreponti. In 1470 was conquered by the Turks. The 1830 was part of the newly established Greek state