Editing Euboea (section)

=== Modern period ===
[[File:Bridge of Chalcis, Euboea (3).JPG|thumb|The Chalcis' Bridge connecting the island with the mainland of [[Greece]].]]

In 1982, in the Greek-speaking village of Antia in southern Euboea, the entire population knew the local [[whistled language]] called ''sfyria'' (from the Greek word ''sfyrizo'' 'whistle'),<ref name="Stein2017">{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170731-greeces-disappearing-whistled-language |title=Greece's disappearing whistled language |last=Stein |first=Eliot |date=1 August 2017 |work=[[BBC Travel]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801161637/http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170731-greeces-disappearing-whistled-language |archive-date=1 August 2017}}</ref> but only a few whistlers remain in the 21st century.<ref name=Meyer2005>{{cite thesis |last1=Meyer |first1=Julien |title=Description typologique et intelligibilité des langues sifflées, approche linguistique et bioacoustique |trans-title=Typology and intelligibility of whistled languages: approach in linguistics and bioacoustics |language=fr |year=2005 |url=http://www.lemondesiffle.free.fr/projet/science/TheseMeyer.pdf}}</ref> ''Sfyria'' is "a whistled version of spoken Greek, in which letters and syllables correspond to distinct tones and frequencies."<ref name="Stein2017" />

Beginning in late 1943, 1,000 Greek Jews were smuggled from [[Salonika|Thessaloniki]] and Athens via the island by the [[Greek Resistance]] and British [[MI11]] to [[Çeşme]] in neutral [[Turkey]], thereby escaping [[the Holocaust in Greece]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Guttstadt |first1=Corry |last2=Mannoni |first2=Olivier |title=La politique de la Turquie pendant la Shoah |journal=Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah |date=2015 |issue=2 |page=195 |doi=10.3917/rhsho.203.0195 |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2015-2-page-195.htm}}</ref>

Euboea is linked to the mainland by two bridges, one that runs through Chalcis and is also accessible from [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], and another which bypasses Chalcis and is accessed from Athens. All of Euboea's modern bridges are [[Suspension bridge|suspended]].

In the 1980s, the [[Dystos]] lake was filled with grass which was set on fire by farmers to make more farmland. This act caused devastation of much of the plants and the environment in that area.{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}} A part of the lake later regenerated. Also the municipalities of Anthidona and Avlida in the mid to late 20th century, which once were part of [[Boeotia]], reverted to Chalcis.{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}} Since then, the postal codes have corresponded with the rest of Euboea, including Skyros. 

A week-long major [[2021 Greece wildfires|forest fire in 2021]] destroyed over 50,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land in the north of the island, one of the largest forest fires in modern Greek history.