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Negropont

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Negropont Greece: see Évvoia . Author not available, NEGROPONT., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008... Read more
Khalkís
...died there (322 BC). In succeeding centuries the city was used as a base for invading Greece. In the Middle Ages it was named Negropont by the Venetians, who occupied it in 1209. It passed to the Ottoman Turks in 1470 and in 1830 became part of Greece. A diamond-shap... Read more
Paul II
...was politically and militarily weakened. After the fall of Negropont (present day Khalkis, capital of the island of Evvoia in the...ally, Scanderber, in their attempt to repel the invaders. Negropont had been under the rule of Venice, and Paul's support was... Read more

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