Euboea

Euboea is the second-largest Greek island, lying along the east coast of central Greece and separated from the mainland by the narrow Euripus strait. Its cities of Chalcis and Eretria led early Greek colonisation in the 8th century BCE, founding settlements in Italy, Sicily and the northern Aegean. Under the Venetians and Latin lords it was known as Negroponte, until the Ottomans took it in 1470.