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Emergency services issued evacuation orders for those in the Metohi area of western Chios on Monday morning, urging them to head to a nearby beach. By the evening, more than 140 firefighters, along with eight teams of firefighters specializing in wildfires, seven water-dropping planes and three helicopters were fighting the blaze.
Politis (Greek: Πολίτης, meaning "Citizen") is a daily Greek-language daily national newspaper published in Cyprus. It is the second-largest (by circulation) Greek-language newspaper on the island, with about 7,000 copies sold daily, or about 8% of the market.
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The Chios Basin is a hydrographic sub-unit of the Aegean Sea adjacent to the island of Chios. [10] A kind of white dirt found near Pyrgi on the southern part of the island [ 11 ] was famed as an astringent and cosmetic since antiquity as Chian earth ( Latin : Chia terra ; [ 12 ] Greek : πηλομαιοτικο , pēlomaiotiko ). [ 11 ]
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But I must confess I have big difficulties with the numbers: summing all, we get a population for Chios in 1822 of about 117.000, while in 2005 Chios plus Psara have 53,817. And what's more its modern density (59.5/km²) is perfectly in line with the nearby islands, Lesbos (51.2/km²) and Samos (56.7/km²), so it can't be called underpopulated.