Euboia

Until the beginning of the last century the first language of large areas of Attica and Euboia in northern Greece was Arvanitika, a form of Albanian, which has been replaced by modern Albanian, spoken by recent immigrants.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

Until the beginning of the last century the first language of large areas of Attica and Euboia in northern Greece was Arvanitika, a form of Albanian, which has been replaced by modern Albanian, spoken by recent immigrants.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

The Venetians occupied Euboia in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade which conquered Byzantium since that was easier and more convenient than conquering Jerusalem.

languagehat.com: THE AMPERSAND. 2004

When the Greeks finally did liberate Euboia after 600+ years, the family name had become established.

languagehat.com: THE AMPERSAND. 2004

Presumably the originally-Venetian name "Negroponte" was kept during the Turkish era in resistance to the Turkish name whatever that was, whereas if the Greeks had liberated the island themselves they might have reverted to Euboia.

languagehat.com: THE AMPERSAND. 2004

An exploratory trench made in 2003 showed that green cipollino marble from the Greek island of Euboia still covers its sides.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 3 2003

Other sources are Aphrodisias (white and gray marble) in Turkey, the Peloponnesus (rosso antico, a dark red limestone), Thessaly (verde antico, a greenish breccia), and Euboia (cipollino, a light green semi-crystallized limestone) in Greece.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 2 2003

The most common stone type, apart from the Afyon marbles, is cipollino from Euboia in Greece.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Stone Report 1 2003

Euboia in Sicily, making a distinction between them: and he dealt thus with these two cities because he thought that a body of commons was a most unpleasant element in the State.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Also local pink limestone, local sandstone, rosso antico (Peleponessos, Greece), verde antico (Thessaly, Greece), cipollino (Euboia, Greece) and possibly white and grey Aphrodisian marble have been used to construct the floor.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Stone 2003