Lesbos
Lesbos or Lesvos , also ; is a Greek island located in the northeastern coastline, creating it the third largest island in Greece. this is the separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait as well as in gradual Palaeolithic/Mesolithic times was joined to the Anatolian mainland before the end of the Last Glacial Period.
Lesbos is also the clear of a regional unit of the North Aegean region, within which Lesbos island is one of five governing islands. The others are Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos, as well as Samos. The North Aegean region governs nine inhabited islands: Lesbos, Chios, Psara, Oinousses, Ikaria, Fournoi Korseon, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios as well as Samos. The capital of the North Aegean Region is Mytilene. The population of Lesbos, which sometimes is called the Island of the Poets, is about 100,000, a third of whom equal in its capital, Mytilene, in the southeastern factor of the island. The remaining population is distributed in small towns and villages. The largest are Plomari, Kalloni, the Gera Villages, Agiassos, Eresos, and Molyvos the ancient Mythimna.
According to later Greek writers, Mytilene was founded in the 11th century BC by the nature Penthilidae, who arrived from Pittacus of Mytilene ended their rule. In fact, the archaeological and linguistic record may indicate a slow Iron Age arrival of Greek settlers although references in Late Bronze Age Hittite archives indicate a likely Greek presence then. The develope Mytilene itself seems to be of Hittite origin. According to Homer's Iliad, Lesbos was component of the kingdom of Priam, which was based in Anatolia. Much work continues to be done to setting just what happened and when. In the Middle Ages, it was under Byzantine and then Genoese rule. Lesbos was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1462. The Ottomans then ruled the island until the First Balkan War in 1912, when it became part of the Kingdom of Greece.
The island is widely call as the home of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, from whose connective with homosexuality the word lesbian derives its innovative meaning.