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Euboea is the second largest of the Greek Aegean Islands and the second largest Greek island overall in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from the mainland of Greece by the Euripus channel, so narrow that it changes direction every three hours. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about 150 km long, and varies in breadth from 50 km to 6 km. Its general direction is from northwest to southeast, and it is traversed throughout its length by a mountain range, which forms part of the chain that bounds Thessaly on the east, and is continued south of Euboea in the lofty islands of Andros, Tinos and Mykonos.

Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was originally known under other names in ancient times, such as Macris and Doliche from its shape, Ellopia and Abantis from the tribes inhabiting it.

Euboea was believed to have originally formed part of the mainland, and to have been separated from it by an earthquake. This is fairly probable, because it lies in the neighbourhood of a fault line, and both Thucydides and Strabo write that the northern part of the island had been shaken at different periods. Its northern extremity is separated from the Thessalian coast by a strait, which at one point is not more than 130 feet wide. In the neighbourhood of Chalcis, both to the north and the south, the bays are so confined as to make plausible the story of Agamemnon's fleet having been detained there by contrary winds. At Chalcis itself, where the strait is narrowest, it is called the Euripus Strait. The extraordinary changes of tide which take place in this passage have been a subject of note since classical times. At one moment the current runs like a river in one direction, and shortly afterwards with equal velocity in the other. A bridge was first constructed here in the twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian War (410 BC). The name Euripus was corrupted during the Middle Ages into Evripo and Egripo, and in this latter form transferred to the whole island. Later the Venetians, when they occupied the district, altered it to Negroponte, referring to the bridge which connected it with the mainland.The history of the island is for the most part that of its two principal cities, Chalcis and Eretria. Both cities were Ionian settlements from Attica, and their importance in early times is shown by their numerous colonies in Magna Graecia and Sicily, such as Cumae and Rhegium, and on the coast of Macedonia. In this way they opened new trade routes to the Greeks, and extended the field of western civilization.

The strength of their commerce is shown by the fact that the Euboic scale of weights and measures was used in Athens until Solon, and among the Ionic cities generally. They were rival cities, and appear to have been equally powerful at first; one of the earliest of the sea battles mentioned in Greek history took place between them, and it is also said that many of the other Greek states took part.

In 490 BC, Eretria was utterly ruined and its inhabitants were transported to Persia. Though it was restored after the Battle of Marathon, on a site at a little distance from its original position, it never regained its former eminence, but it was still the second city on the island. From this time its neighbour Chalcis held an undisputed supremacy. Already, however, this city had suffered from the growing power of Athens. In the year 506 BC the Chalcidians were totally defeated by the Athenians, who established 4,000 Attic settlers on their lands, and seem to have reduced the whole island to a condition of dependence.

Again, in 446 BC, when Euboea endeavoured to throw off the yoke, it was once more reduced by Pericles, and a new body of settlers was planted at Histiaea in the north of the island, after the inhabitants of that town had been expelled. The Athenians fully recognized its importance to them, for supplying them with corn (ie, grain) and cattle, securing their commerce, and guaranteeing them against piracy, because its proximity to the coast of Attica rendered it extremely dangerous to them when in other hands. But in 410 BC the island succeeded in regaining its independence. After this it took sides with one or other of the leading states, until, after the Battle of Chaeronea, it passed into the hands of Philip II of Macedon, and finally into those of the Romans.

n 1157 all the coastal towns of Euboea were destroyed by a Sicilian force.

In modern history, Euboea came into prominence following the Fourth Crusade. In the partition of the Eastern Roman Empire by the Latins, the island was divided into three fiefs which placed themselves under the protection of the Venetian Republic, henceforth the sovereign power. On 12 July 1470, after a heated defence, the well-fortified city of Chalkis (Negroponte) was wrested from Venice by Mehmed II, and the whole island fell into the hands of the Ottoman Empire. At the conclusion of the Greek War of Independence in 1830, the island constituted a part of the newly-established Greek state.

Euboea is linked to the mainland by two bridges, one that runs through Chalcis and is also accessible from Thebes, and another which bypasses Chalcis and is accessed from Athens. All of Euboea's modern bridges are suspended.

In the 1980s, the Dystos lake was filled with grass which was set on fire by farmers to make more farmland. This act caused devastation of much of the plants and the environment in that area.A part of the lake later regenerated. Also the municipalities of Anthidona and Avlida in the mid to late 20th century, which once were part of the eastern part of the Boeotia Prefecture, reverted to Chalcis. Since then, the postal codes corresponded with the rest of Euboea, including Skyros.

Municipalities and communities of the Euboea Prefecture
Municipalities
Aidipsos , Amarynthos , Anthidona , Artemisio , Avlida , Avlon , Chalcis , Dirfys , Dystos , Elymnioi , Eretria , Istiaia , Karystos , Kireas , Konistres , Kymi , Lilantia , Marmari , Messapia , Nea Artaki , Nileas , Oreoi , Skyros , Styra , Taminaioi
Communities
Kafireas , Lichada

Chalcis or Chalkida, Halkida, Halkis or Chalkis the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Evripos at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from antiquity and is derived from the Greek (copper, bronze), though there is no trace of any mines in the area.

List of settlements in the Euboea prefecture ; Achladeri, Achladi, Aetos, Afrati, Agdines, Agia Anna, Agia Anna, Agia Sofia, Agioi Apostoloi, Agiokampos, Agios near Aidipsos, Agios, Agios Athanasios, Agios Dimitrios, Agios Georgios near Gialtra, Agios Georgios, Agios Ioannis, Agios Loukas,Akti Nireos, Agios Nikolaos, Agriovotano, Aidipsos, Akres, Aktaio,Ekali, Aktes, Aliveri,Anthoupoli,Katakalos,Latas,Milaki, Almyropotamos, Amarynthos, Amelantes, Amfithea, Androniani, Angali, Ano Mistros, Ano Potamia, Ano Vathia, Argyro, Artemisio, Asmini, Aspous, Attali, Avgaria, Avlonari, Avlivos, Boufalo, Bouros, Chalkida, Dafni, Dafnoussa, Drosia , Dystos, Ellinika, Enoria, Epanochori, Eretria, Farakla, Figia, Filia, Galatsades, Galatsona, Gavala, Geraki, Gialtra, Giannitsi, Gimno, Glyfada, Gouves, Grampia, Gregolimano, Ilia, Istiea, Kadio, Kallithea, Kafireas,Amygdalia, Kalimeriani, Kallergo, Kallianos,Agatho,Kalergo,Lenosaioi,Soteira,Vrachos, Kalyvia, Kamari, Kamari, Kamaritsa, Kampia, Kanatadika, Kanithos, Karavos, Karystos, Kastaniotissa, Kastela, Katheni, Kato Seta, Kato Steni, Katsaroni,Choni, Kechries, Keramia, Kerasea, Kimasi, Kipoi, Kokkimomplea, Komito, Konistres, Kontothespoti, Koskina, Kotsikia, Kourkouli, Koutouria, Kremastos, Krieza, Krya Vrysi, Kryoneritis, Kymi, Kyparissi, Kyrinthos, Lamari, Lepoura, Licha, Limni, Linaria, in Skyros, Lichas Evvoias, Loutra Aidipsou, Loutra Gialtro, Loutro in Skyros, Loutsa, Magoula, Makrichori, Makrimalli, Makrikapa, Malakonta, Manikia, Mantoudi, Marmari,Agia Marina Marmaris,Agios Konstantinos Marmaris,Diastavrosi,Figia,Kokkinis,Krya Vryssi,Lykorema,Panagia Marmaris,Paralia Fygia, Marouli, Mavropoulo, Mela in Skyros, Melisso, Paradeisi,Alexi,Chania, Mesochoria, Metochi, Milees, Mili Evvoia, Mistros, Mitika, Monokaria, Myrtia, Nea Artaki, Nea Lampsakos, Nea Sinasos, Nea Styra, Neochori, Neos Pyrgos, Nerotrivia, Nifi in Skyros, Ochthonia, Oraioi, Orio, Oxolithos, Pagontos, Palioura, Panagia, Panagia, in southern Euboea, Panorama, Papades, Paradeisi, Paralia Evvoia, Paralia Kotsikias/Kotsikias Beach, Partheni, Pefki, Petries, Pilio, Pissona, Platania, Platania, Platanistos, Politika, Polympotamos, Pournos, Prasino,Panagitsa, Prinia, Prokopi, Psachna, Pyrgi, Pyrgi, Pyrgi, Rovies, Sarakiniko, Seta, Skepasti, Spathari, Stavros, Steni Dyrfios, Stouppaioi,Kalogeri,Rizovouni,Varellaioi,Vatisi or Vatissi, Strofilia, Stropones,Agia Eirini,Lamari,Paralia Chiliadou, Styra, Syros, Taxiarches, Taxiarchi, Tharounia, Theologos, Trachilio, Triada, Vareleli, Vasilika, Vathy, Vatisio, Velos, Vitala, Vlachia, Vouni, Vouta, Vrysi, Zarakes

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