Castle of Chios

The Castle of Chios is a medieval fort in Chios city at the Greek island of Chios. The fortress is situated adjacent to the principle port of Chios and its east aspect borders with the ocean. It consists of an inhabited vicinity surrounded through a massive stone wall structure with diverse fortifications purposed to defend the enclosed populace and residences against naval attack and siege. The citadel become constructed inside the medieval duration with its first creation section having started inside the tenth century by the Byzantines.

The structures surviving to this present day are part of later creation and expansion dated to the time when the Genoese, who maintained commercial concerns, dominated the island at some stage in the 14th to the 16th century. Saint George's church is placed on the primary street of the fortress, Aghiou Georgiou road. There changed into to start with a Byzantine church courting again to 10th or 11th century. It later have become a Genoan church. Piyale Pasha, an Ottoman admiral, transformed the west a part of the church into the Eski Mosque upon the Ottoman capture of the island in 1566. The mosque become reconstructed after 1881 earthquake and became afterward the present day church of Aghios Georgios.