Editing Aegina (section)

===First Ottoman period (1540–1687)===
Aegina suffered greatly after being attacked by Barbarossa in 1537. In 1579, the island was repopulated partly by [[Albanians]].<ref name="SuttonAdams2000">{{cite book|last1=Sutton|first1=Susan Buck|last2=Adams|first2=Keith W.|last3=Project|first3=Argolid Exploration|title=Contingent countryside: settlement, economy, and land use in the southern Argolid since 1700|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukDbeQbFOUAC&pg=PA349|accessdate=27 October 2010|year=2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-3315-1|page=347}}</ref> The Albanians would eventually assimilate into the Greek population.<ref name = T>Jochalas, Titos P. (1971): Über die Einwanderung der Albaner in Griechenland: Eine zusammenfassene Betrachtung ["On the immigration of Albanians to Greece: A summary"]. München: Trofenik. pg. 89–106.</ref>

The island was attacked and left desolate by [[Francesco Morosini]] during the [[Cretan War (1645–1669)|Cretan War]] (1654).