Mastic was then so precious that during the 1822 Chios Massacre, when52.000 Chios' inhabitants were massacred and 50000 enslaved as a revenge for the GREEK Revolution, the people of the Mastichochoria region were spared by the sultan, because they provided mastic. The Turkish name for the ...
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