Editing Chios (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Koraes Public Library in Chios.jpg|thumb|''[[Adamantios Korais]]'' public library of Chios town.]]
[[File:Βροντάδος Χίου - Οι "ρουκετατζήδες".jpg|thumb|''Rouketopolemos'' (Rocket war), [[Vrontados]]]]

* [[Nea Moni]] is a monastery with fine [[mosaic]]s from [[Constantine IX]]'s reign and a [[World Heritage Site]].<ref>[http://www.culture.gr/2/21/212/21203n/e212cn01.html Nea Moni], Hellenic Ministry of Culture {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203145325/http://www.culture.gr/2/21/212/21203n/e212cn01.html|date=3 February 2007}}</ref>
* An ancient inscription (at Chios Archaeological Museum) from a fifth-century funerary monument for Heropythos the son of Philaios, traced his family back over fourteen generations to Kyprios at the tenth century BC, before there were any written records in Greece.<ref>A Corpus of the Inscriptions of Chios (IG XII 6.3)</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=Michael |title=In Search of the Trojan War |publisher=Univ of CA Press |year=1998 |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA |isbn=0-520-21599-0}}</ref>

;Forts
* [[Castle of Chios]], a Byzantine fort built in the 10th century
** St. George's church

;Museums
* [[Chios Byzantine Museum]]
* [[The Chios Mastic Museum]]
* [[Archaeological Museum of Chios]]
* [[Chios Maritime Museum]]

;Traditions
* The town of [[Vrontados]] is home to a unique Easter celebration, where competing teams of locals gather at the town's two (rival) churches to fire tens of thousands of homemade rockets at the other church's bell tower while the Easter service is going on inside the churches, in what has become known as ''[[rouketopolemos]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://narrative.ly/this-insane-greek-fireworks-battle-puts-your-july-4th-to-shame/ |title=This Insane Greek Fireworks Battle Puts Your July 4th to Shame |date=3 July 2017 |access-date=3 July 2017 |publisher=Narrative.ly |author=Matthew Somerville |archive-date=25 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925084055/http://narrative.ly/this-insane-greek-fireworks-battle-puts-your-july-4th-to-shame/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

;Sports
* [[F.C. Lailapas]] (Chios town)
* [[NC Chios]], water polo
* [[Panchiakos GS]]

;Media
* [[Alithia TV]]
* ''[[Chiakos Laos]]'', newspaper
* ''[[Politis tis Thrakis|Politis]]'', newspaper
* ''Dimokratiki'', newspaper

===Twin town, sister cities===
Chios is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:

* {{flagicon|SVK}} [[Brezno]], [[Slovakia]]
* {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Çeşme]], [[Turkey]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Kardeş Şehirlerimiz|url=https://www.cesme.bel.tr/sayfa/kardes-sehirlerimiz|website=cesme.bel.tr|publisher=Çeşme|language=tr|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Ermoupoli]], [[Greece]]
* {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Genoa]], [[Italy]] <small>''(since 1985)''<ref>[http://www.comuni-italiani.it/010/025/index.html Municipality of Genoa – Homepage].</ref></small>
* {{flagicon|PRC}} [[Guiyang]], [[China]]
* {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Ortona]], [[Italy]]
* {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Polykastro]], [[Greece]]