Psara
Psará (in Greek Ψαρά ) is a Greek island located at 44 nautical miles in the north of Chios, of forty square kilometers for 460 inhabitants (1995).
At the time modern, it was one of the commercial great powers of Greece, with Hydra and Spetses.
At the time of the War of Greek independence, the island was attacked by the Othoman which sent against it 140 ships and 14.000 Janissaires. The island was completely devastated (see Massacre of Psara). Some survivors fled with Constantin Kanaris. They based Néa Psara (today Érétrie) on the island of Eubée. Dionýsios Solomós devoted a poem to the island. Nikolaos Gysis devoted a table to him.
Psara remained Turkish until 1912.
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