Qualla: Castle of Chios https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/castle-of-chios-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Castle of Chios https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios Castle of Chios: Introduction https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios/ Photo credit Vangelisg4, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walk through the gate of the Castle of Chios and you are not entering one fortress but several, layered into the same stone. A church that began as Byzantine became a Genoese chapel, then an Ottoman mosque, then a church again. Vaulted Turkish baths sit a short walk from a Crusader-era cistern. The walls have faced the sea for a thousand years, and almost every empire that mattered in the eastern Mediterranean left a mark on them before moving on.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/castle-of-chios-wp/swfd-castle-of-chios-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Castle of Chios: Stone Against the Sea https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios/ Photo credit Meltedrainbow, CC BY-SA 4.0. The castle rises right at the edge of the harbor, its eastern flank washed by the Aegean. This was never decoration. Chios sits in a narrow channel between the Greek islands and the Anatolian coast, a chokepoint on the sea roads, and whoever held the island wanted walls that coul...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/castle-of-chios-wp/swfd-castle-of-chios-stone-against-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Castle of Chios: Byzantines and Genoese https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios/ Photo credit Balkanique, CC BY-SA 4.0. The first walls went up in the tenth century under the Byzantines, but the castle that survives is largely the work of the Genoese. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, Chios belonged to Genoa - more precisely to the Maona, a chartered company that ran the island as a co...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/castle-of-chios-wp/swfd-castle-of-chios-byzantines-and-genoese.mp3 0:06 3 full Castle of Chios: The Ottoman Centuries https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios/ Photo credit Lunar sea n, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1566 the long Genoese tenure ended. The Ottoman admiral Piyale Pasha took the castle for Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and Chios passed into an empire that would hold it for more than three centuries. The new rulers did not erase what they found - they adapted it. Piyale Pa...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/d/castle-of-chios-wp/swfd-castle-of-chios-the-ottoman-centuries.mp3 0:06 4 full Castle of Chios: Baths and Cisterns https://qualla.com/castle-of-chios/ Photo credit Mariolovre, CC BY-SA 4.0. Toward the north of the enclosure stand Ottoman baths roofed with the low vaults of the classic hammam, where steam and ritual washing followed forms carried across the empire. Nearby waits the Kria Vrisi - the Cold Fountain - a large semi-underground reservoir from the Genoese e...

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