Mytilene airport management recorded 47,379 tourists visiting Lesbos in its 2015 tourism season. Lesbos is known to be one of the Greek island touristic hotspots, especially during its tourism season of April, May, June and July. An older name for the island that was maintained in Aeolic Greek was Ἴσσα ( Íssa). The name is from Ancient Greek Λέσβος ( Lésbos, 'forested, woody'), possibly a Hittite borrowing, as the original Hittite name for the island was Lazpa. The island is widely known as the home of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, from whose association with homosexuality the word lesbian derives its modern meaning. The Ottomans then ruled the island until the First Balkan War in 1912, when it became part of the Kingdom of Greece. Lesbos was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1462. In the Middle Ages, it was under Byzantine and then Genoese rule. Much work remains to be done to determine just what happened and when. According to Homer's Iliad, Lesbos was part of the kingdom of Priam, which was based in Anatolia. The name Mytilene itself seems to be of Hittite origin. In fact, the archaeological and linguistic record may indicate a late Iron Age arrival of Greek settlers although references in Late Bronze Age Hittite archives indicate a likely Greek presence then. The largest are Plomari, Kalloni, the Gera Villages, Agiassos, Eresos, and Molyvos (the ancient Mythimna).Īccording to later Greek writers, Mytilene was founded in the 11th century BC by the family Penthilidae, who arrived from Thessaly and ruled the city-state until a popular revolt (590–580 BC) led by Pittacus of Mytilene ended their rule. The remaining population is distributed in small towns and villages. The population of Lesbos, which sometimes is called the Island of the Poets, is 83.068, a third of whom live in its capital, Mytilene, in the southeastern part of the island. The capital of the North Aegean Region is Mytilene. The North Aegean region governs nine inhabited islands: Lesbos, Chios, Psara, Oinousses, Ikaria, Fournoi Korseon, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios and Samos. The others are Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos, and Samos. Lesbos is also the name of a regional unit of the North Aegean region, within which Lesbos island is one of five governing islands.
It is separated from Asia Minor by the narrow Mytilini Strait and in late Palaeolithic/Mesolithic times was joined to the Anatolian mainland before the end of the Last Glacial Period. It has an area of 1,633 km 2 (631 sq mi) with approximately 400 kilometres (249 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece. Lesbos or Lesvos ( / ˈ l ɛ z b ɒ s/, also US: / ˈ l ɛ z b ə s, - b oʊ s/ Greek: Λέσβος, romanized: Lésvos ) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea, often called Mytilene ( Μυτιλήνη) in Greece, after its capital.
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