Euboic Sea

The Euboic Sea separates Euboea from the Greek mainland, narrowing at Chalcis into the Euripus Strait. A bridge has linked the shores at this constriction since Byzantine times. Known to westerners as Negroponte, Chalcis became a center of Venetian and Latin rule after the Fourth Crusade. The Ottomans captured the fortified town after a long siege in 1470, and held it against a Venetian attempt to recover it in 1688.