Qualla: Psara https://qualla.com/psara 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/5/psara-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Psara https://qualla.com/psara Psara: Introduction https://qualla.com/psara/ Photo credit AlekH at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0. Homer knew this island by name. In the Odyssey he calls it Psyra, a windward rock off the coast of Chios that sailors steered past on their way home. Three thousand years later the name has barely changed and the rock is barely greener, treeless and bare, ringed by deep blue water. Fewer than five hundred people live here now. But for one extraordinary stretch of history, this small place built one of the most feared fleets in the Aegean, and then paid for it in full.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/5/psara-wp/swf5-psara-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Psara: Living From the Sea https://qualla.com/psara/ Photo credit Macedon-40, CC BY-SA 4.0. Psara offers almost nothing on land. It is rocky and dry, with little soil and fewer trees, so its people have always turned to the water. They fished, famously for the slipper lobsters that crowd the local seabed, and above all they sailed. Settlement here reaches back to the My...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/5/psara-wp/swf5-psara-living-from-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Psara: The Third Fleet https://qualla.com/psara/ Photo credit Petros Moraites, Public domain. By the early nineteenth century, the Psariots had built the third largest merchant fleet in Greece, behind only Hydra and Spetses, some forty-five ships strong. When the revolution against Ottoman rule began in 1821, the island joined within weeks and turned its merchant captains...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/5/psara-wp/swf5-psara-the-third-fleet.mp3 0:06 3 full Psara: The Year Everything Ended https://qualla.com/psara/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, CC BY 3.0. In June 1824, the Ottoman fleet came for Psara. The island, by then crowded with refugees from earlier massacres, was overwhelmed in two days. Most of its people were killed or enslaved; the rest fled. The defenders' last act at the hilltop fort, blowing themselves and their atta...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/5/psara-wp/swf5-psara-the-year-everything-ended.mp3 0:06 4 full Psara: Sons and Daughters https://qualla.com/psara/ Photo credit Afbeelding4, CC BY-SA 4.0. For a place so small, Psara sent remarkable people out into the world. Ioannis Varvakis made a fortune in caviar and became one of the great benefactors of the young Greek state. Kanaris and the admirals Nikolis Apostolis and Dimitrios Papanikolis carried the island's seamanship ...

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