Editing Thasos (section)

===Ottoman era===
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Thasos was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1456.<ref>Somel, Selçuk Akşin, ''The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire'', p. 103, Scarecrow Press, Mar 23, 2010</ref> Under Ottoman rule, the island was known in [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] as طاشوز - ''Taşöz''. Between 1770 and 1774, the island was briefly occupied by a [[Russia]]n fleet. By this time its population had gravitated to the inland villages as a protective measure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greektravel.com/greekislands/thassos/index.htm|title=Greek Islands:Thassos|access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>  Nearly 50 years later, a revolt against Ottoman rule arose in 1821, at the outbreak of the [[Greek War of Independence]], led by Hatzigiorgis Metaxas, but it failed. The [[1831 census of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Census of 1831]] states that the island was populated exclusively by Greeks and that there were 1,821 Greek males fit to fight. This register excluded women, orphans, Christians below the age of puberty, the mentally or physically incapacitated as well as high-ranking officials, so the actual population would have been over double this.<ref>[[Kemal Karpat]] (1985), [https://kupdf.net/downloadFile/59e4a7b908bbc56144e653d7 Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics], [[The University of Wisconsin Press]], p. 9 & 114</ref>

The island had been given in 1813 by the Sultan [[Mahmud II]] to the Ottoman Albanian ruler [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]] as a personal fiefdom, as a reward for his [[Wahhabi War|intervention against the Wahhabites]]. The island had functioned as the chief centre of recruitment for [[Albanians]] who entered the [[Egypt under Muhammad Ali|Egyptian]] civil service, until 1912.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kamusella|first=Tomasz|author-link=Tomasz Kamusella|title=Central Europe's Limits in the North and the South|journal=Acta Slavica Iaponica|volume=44|year=2023|pages=83–112|issn=0288-3503|publisher=Slavic Research Center, [[Hokkaido University]]}}</ref> On 20 October 1912 during the [[First Balkan War]], the Greek navy invaded Thasos and annexed it into Greece after more than 350 years of Ottoman Turkish rule.