Editing Samothrace (section)

===Middle Ages to Modern era===
[[File:Samothraki island - Francesco Piacenza - 1688.jpg|thumb|200px|Samothrachi by Francesco Piacenza, 1688]]

St Theophanes died in Samothrace in 818. The [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] ruled until 1204, when [[Republic of Venice|Venetians]] took their place, only to be dislodged in 1355 by a [[Genoa|Genoese]] family, the [[Gattilusi]]. The [[Ottoman Empire]] conquered it in 1457 and it was called {{lang|tr|Semadirek}} in [[Turkish language|Turkish]]. In the era of [[Suleiman the Magnificent|Kanuni Sultan Süleyman]] the island became a [[Waqf|vakıf]] for the [[Süleymaniye Mosque]] and its [[Imaret]] in İstanbul. During the Ottoman period, it was one of the islands open to settlement among the Boğazönü Islands. The appearance of a person from Samothrace among the new inhabitants of the island of Lemnos in 1490 indicates that the population movements on the island were mostly with the surrounding islands and therefore the coastal areas close to Anatolia. The total tax population of the island in 1519 was 182 soldiers (male population of fighting age). 53 of them were newcomers to the island. There was a total tax population of 220 soldiers here in 1530 (twelve of whom were foreigners). In 1569, there were four settlements and a tax population of 742 soldiers on the island. Seven soldiers of this population were Muslims. The fact that neighborhoods, which are the main features of Ottoman towns and cities, were established in this last date indicates the process of becoming a town.<ref>{{Cite web  |title=SEMADİREK  |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/semadirek  |access-date=2022-11-10  |website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi  |language=tr  |archive-date=2022-11-10  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110144307/https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/semadirek  |url-status=live  }}</ref> However, in the mid-17th century, Bernard Randolph, while describing the island with [[Thasos]] and [[Imbros]], states that all three of the islands were neglected because they were flooded by pirates and there were only two or three villages on each of them.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Randolph |first=Bernard |title=The Present State of the Islands in the Archipelago |publisher=Theater |year=1687 |location=Oxford, England |pages=42 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23114}}</ref> According to Charles Vellay a rebellion against the Ottoman rule and Muslim population by the local population during the [[Greek War of Independence]] (1821–1831) led to the [[Massacre of Samothrace (1821)|massacre]] of 1,000 inhabitants.<ref>Charles Vellay, ''L'irrédentisme hellénique'', 1913, 329 pages. page 131: [https://books.google.com/books?id=vMhDAAAAYAAJ&q=samothrace+massacre+1821] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201220143/https://books.google.com/books?id=vMhDAAAAYAAJ&q=samothrace+massacre+1821&dq=samothrace+massacre+1821&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HxjFT4jUFpOKhQen14GNCg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA|date=2023-02-01}}</ref> The island came under Greek rule in 1913 following the [[Balkan Wars]]. It was occupied temporarily by [[Bulgaria]] during the [[Second World War]], from 1941 to 1944.