The original Greek settlements in Ionia, the region comprising the central sector of the western coast of Anatolia, were numerous and small.

Homer is reputed to have lived in Chios, an island situated five miles (eight kilometers) off the western coast of Anatolia in the Aegean Sea, which is the home of a school of bards, the Homerids (Homeridae).

In the eighth century BCE, it becomes one of the seven cities of the Pan-Ionian League, by which time the Ionians have confirmed their possession of the whole coastline and have consolidated themselves into twelve major cities, including the capitals of the islands Chios and …

Chios also revolts, and is ravaged by Athens in reprisal.

…Chios, …

…Chios, and Byzantium to revolt against Athens (though, as stated previously, Byzantium is probably already detached).

Dislike of Athens is as much a factor in the outbreak of war as the intriguing of Mausolus.

Athens, its Hellespontine grain route threatened by Euboea’s defection, sends a fleet to Byzantium and tightens its control over the other city-states.

Whether the Greek cities of Anatolia now join the League of Corinth is an intractable question.

Some of the islanders certainly do, as, for instance, Chios, where an inscription recording the terms of Alexander's settlement proclaims bluntly, “the constitution is to be a democracy” and refers to the “decrees of the Greeks.”

…whose combined forces had defeated Philip at sea off Chios in 200 BCE.

…sacks the imperial possessions of Chios and …

...capturing the Aegean island of Chios in 1694.

Mustafa's military campaigns meet with early success.

After recovering the island of Chios from Venice in 1695, the sultan makes gains against Austria.