Lordship of Chios
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The Lordship of Chios was a short-lived autonomous lordship run by the Genoese Zaccaria family. Its core was the eastern Aegean island of Chios, and in its height it encompassed a number of other islands off the shore of Asia Minor. Although theoretically a vassal of the Byzantine Empire, the Zaccaria ruled the island as a practically independent domain from its capture in 1304 until the Greek-Byzantines recovered it, with the support of the local Greek population, in 1329. The island would return to Genoese control in 1346 under the Maona of Chios and Phocaea.
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Lordship of Chios Χίος | |||||||||
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Genoese lordship in Byzantine territory | |||||||||
1304–1329 | |||||||||
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Capital | Chios | ||||||||
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• Coordinates | 40°38′N 22°57′E | ||||||||
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• Type | Feudal lordship | ||||||||
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• 1304–1307 | Benedetto I Zaccaria | ||||||||
• 1314–1329 | Martino Zaccaria | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 1304 | ||||||||
• Reconquest by the Byzantines | 1329 | ||||||||
• Capture of Chios by the Genoese | 1354 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Greece |
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