Chios
- Ancient name
- Chios
- Modern name
- Chios
- Modern country
- Greece
- Coordinates
- 38.41, 26.05
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364260
Chios is a large island in the Aegean Sea north of Samos and south of Mytilene, off the coast of Asia Minor. Like Samos, it was controlled by the Genoese Giustiniani family in the later Middle Ages, being commercially important for the trade in mastic, alum, salt and pitch. Campbell #1398d.
The toponym Chios appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P042
Variant spellings of Chios in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| assio | Spe |
| Sci[...] | Pnc5 |
| Sci[o] | Ricc8 |
| Scio | Ashb7, Barb3, Barb4, Borg, Clas2, Con1, Cors2, Fn8, Fo, He3, Laur3, Luc2, Magl2, Med1, Morg, NB, New, Par2, Par4, Parm2, Ricc11, Ricc13, Ricc14, Ricc6, Ricc9, Tre, Vat3 |
| scio | Bal, Chig2, Con4, Cs1, Fn12, Fn9, He2, Laur5, ME2, Marc1, Med2, NYPL3, Pad1, Per2, Pnc3, Ricc12, Ricc15, Ro2, Urb1, Yale4 |
| SCIO | BL01, Pal5 |
| sio | Pal8 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Chios.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/chios/.