Lordship of Chios
| Lordship of Chios Χίος | |||||||||
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| Genoese lordship in Byzantine territory | |||||||||
| 1304–1329 | |||||||||
| Capital | Chios | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| • Coordinates | 40°38′N 22°57′E / 40.633°N 22.950°E | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Feudal lordship | ||||||||
| Lord | |||||||||
• 1304–1307 | Benedetto I Zaccaria | ||||||||
• 1307–1314 | Benedetto II "Paleologo" Zaccaria | ||||||||
• 1314–1329 | Martino Zaccaria | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 1304 | ||||||||
• Reconquest by the Byzantines | 1329 | ||||||||
• Capture of Chios by the Genoese | 1346 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece | ||||||||
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The Lordship of Chios was a short-lived autonomous lordship run by the Genoese Zaccaria family. Its core was the eastern Aegean island of Chios, and in its height it encompassed a number of other islands off the shore of Asia Minor. Although theoretically a vassal of the Byzantine Empire, the Zaccaria ruled the island as a practically independent domain from its capture in 1304 until the Greek-Byzantines recovered it, with the support of the local Greek population, in 1329. The island would return to Genoese control in 1346 under the Maona of Chios and Phocaea.