Editing Thasos (section)

===Middle Ages===
{{further|Byzantine Greece|Frankokratia}}
[[File:Saint Nicholas Church in Limenas, Thasos from SE.jpg|thumb|Byzantine church in Thasos]]

Thasos was part of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]], now known as the [[Byzantine Empire]], from 395 on. According to the 6th century ''[[Synecdemus]]'', it belonged to the province of [[Macedonia Prima]], although the 10th century ''De thematibus'' claims that it was part of [[Thracia]].<ref name="ODB">{{cite encyclopedia | title = Thasos | last1 = Gregory | first1 = Timothy E. | last2 = Cutler | first2 = Anthony  | page = 2031 | editor-first = Alexander | editor-last = Kazhdan |editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan | encyclopedia = [[Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]] | location = London and New York | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-19-504652-6}}</ref> The island was a major source of marble until the disruption of the [[Slavic people|Slavic]] invasions in the late 6th/7th centuries, and several churches from [[Late Antiquity]] have been found on it.<ref name="ODB"/> The island remained in Byzantine hands for most of the [[Middle Ages]]. It functioned as a naval base in the 13th century, under its own ''[[dux|doux]]'', and came briefly under the rule of the [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] [[Tedisio Zaccaria]] in 1307–13. Returning to Byzantine control, its bishopric was raised to an archdiocese by [[Manuel II Palaiologos]]. Thasos was captured by the Genoese [[Gattilusi]] family c.&nbsp;1434, who surrendered it to the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1455.<ref name="ODB"/> Following the Ottoman conquest of the [[Despotate of the Morea]]  in 1460, the former Despot [[Demetrios Palaiologos]] received lands on the island.<ref name="ODB"/>

It is related that the Byzantine Greek Saint [[Joannicius the Great]] (752–846) in one of his miracles freed the island of Thasos from a multitude of snakes.