Lemnos is a Greek island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea, with Myrina serving as its capital. The island was regarded by the Ancient Greeks as sacred to Hephaestus, and its earliest inhabitants were Thracian tribesmen. The Thracian men deserted their Greek wives for Thracian women, leading to the Greek women massacring their husbands. These women came to be led by Hypsipyle, and they married the crew of the Argo, creating the Minyans, whose king Euneus supplied the Achaeans during the Trojan War. The Persian Darius the Great conquered the island during the Greco-Persian Wars, but, in 510 BC, the Athenian general Miltiades reconquered the island. In 197 BC, the Roman Republic declared the island free of Macedonian rule, but it was returned to Athens from 166 to 146 BC; in that year, all of Greece was incorporated into Rome. Under Byzantine rule, the island was raided by the Saracens in the 10th century and the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century. After the Fourth Crusade, Lemnos became part of the Latin Empire, and it was reconquered by Byzantium in 1278. The island came under Ottoman rule in 1456, but it was briefly captured by a Papal fleet in 1457. From 1464 to 1479, the island was occupied by Venice. Afterwards, the island was repopulated by Turkish settlers from Anatolia, and the island was reoccupied by Venice from 1656 to 1657. In 1912, Lemnos became a part of Greece following the end of the First Balkan War. In 2011, Lemnos had a population of 16,992 people.
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