Sanjak of Sakız
| Sanjak of Sakız | |||||||||||||
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| Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||||||
| 1566–1912 | |||||||||||||
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| Capital | Chios | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Ottoman conquest | 1566 | ||||||||||||
• Captured by Greece and Italy | 1912 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece | ||||||||||||
The Sanjak of Sakız or Chios (Greek: Σαντζάκι Χίου) was a second-level Ottoman province (sanjak or liva) centred on the eastern Aegean island of Chios. Its Turkish name, Sakız, derived from the island's most distinctive product, gum mastic.