Chalcis

Chalcis is the chief city of the island of Euboea in Greece, located on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. The call is preserved from antiquity and springs from the Greek even though there may be no trace of any mines within the location. In the overdue Middle Ages, it become known as Negropont, an Italian name that has also been carried out to the whole island of Euboea. The earliest recorded mention of Chalcis is in the Iliad, in which it is noted inside the equal line as its rival Eretria.

It is likewise documented that the ships set for the Trojan War accumulated at Aulis, the south financial institution of the strait nearby the metropolis. Chamber tombs at Trypa and Vromousa dated to the Mycenaean period have been excavated by way of Papavasiliou in 1910. In the 8th and seventh centuries BC, colonists from Chalcis founded thirty townships at the peninsula of Chalcidice and numerous important towns in Magna Graecia, consisting of Naxos, Rhegion and Cumae.

Its mineral produce, steel-work, pink and pottery no longer only located markets among these settlements, however have been disbursed over the Mediterranean in the ships of Corinth and Samos. Chalcis also has a water polo crew named NC Chalkida, a football soccer crew named Chalkida F.C., as well as a junior football group named Evoikos Chalkida. The Chalkida football crew merged with Lilas Vasilikou for a length of two years 2004–2006. The group was eventually dissolved due to economic problems. Although there was a crew created with the equal call it does no longer represent the superb team of the beyond.