Skyros is a Greek island located in the Sporades archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Its name means "stone debris" in Greek, and the island was the site of Theseus' death at the hands of King Lycomedes; Achilles also set sail for Troy from Skyros, and his son Neoptolemus was born on the island. In 475 BC, the Athenian statesman Cimon conquered the island from the Dolopians, and Athenian settlers colonized the island and incorporated it into the Delian League. The island was taken over by Macedon from 340 BC to 192 BC, but the Roman Republic restored the island to Athens in 192 BC. The island became part of the Republic of Venice following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, but the Byzantines recaptured the island in 1277. The Venetians recaptured the island in 1453, but the Ottoman Turks captured the island in 1538. Skyros became part of the new Greek state in 1830, and a third of the population died during the Spanish flu. In 2011, the island had a population of 2,994 people.
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