Editing Ios (section)

== Name ==
[[File:I Nio - Buondelmonti Cristoforo - 1420.jpg|thumb|left|A 1420 map of the island where the name Nio is used]]
According to [[Plutarch]], it is thought that the name has derived from the Ancient Greek word for [[viola (plant)|violets]], "[[:wikt:ἴον#Ancient Greek|ἴα]]", (ia) because they were commonly found on the island<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.gr/taksidi/ellada/story/1136/ios-to-nisi-toy-omiroy|title=Ίος: Το νησί του Ομήρου|last=Newsroom|date=19 October 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211053330/http://www.cnn.gr/taksidi/ellada/story/1136/ios-to-nisi-toy-omiroy|archive-date=11 December 2017}}</ref> and it is the most accepted etymology. It is also posited that the name was derived from the Phoenician word iion, meaning "pile of stones". [[Pliny the Elder]] also wrote that the name comes from the [[Ionians]] who lived on the island.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gym-iou.kyk.sch.gr/nisi/ios-all.htm|title=Untitled Document|website=gym-iou.kyk.sch.gr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228232435/http://gym-iou.kyk.sch.gr/nisi/ios-all.htm|archive-date=2017-12-28|access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> In the Ottoman period the island was called Anza or Aina, and its present name was officially established in the 19th century after over 2000 years of usage. During the ancient times the island was also called "Φοινίκη" (Phiniki), named after and by the [[Phoenicians]] and in the 3rd century, when the island joined [[League of the Islanders]], was likely temporarily named [[Arsinoe I|Arsinoe]] after the wife of [[Ptolemy II]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.egeonet.gr/Forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=10418|title=Cultural Portal of the Aegean Archipelago}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> Today the inhabitants of the Cycladic Islands call the island Nio, a name deriving from the Byzantine Era.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iosinfo.gr/en/iosislandgeneralinformation/historyofiosisland/index.html |title=History of Ios Island |access-date=2018-03-17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318112352/http://iosinfo.gr/en/iosislandgeneralinformation/historyofiosisland/index.html |archive-date=2017-03-18 }}</ref> The name Little Malta, which is found in texts of travelers during the Ottoman domination, is related to the permanent presence of pirates on the island.<ref name="Archived copy">{{cite web |url=http://www.tovima.gr/relatedarticles/article/?aid=949097 |title=Η Νιος σε τόνους του άσπρου και του μαύρου - σχετικά άρθρα - Το Βήμα Online |access-date=2018-03-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319084706/http://www.tovima.gr/relatedarticles/article/?aid=949097 |archive-date=2018-03-19 }}</ref> In languages with Latin script, the island name is Nio or Io.