Between the end of the 17th Century and the beginning of the 18th Sat century pirate raids in the Aegean Sea. To protect it, leaving the few remaining inhabitants of the island coastline and withdrew into the natural protection of the mountains into the interior of the island. It was among others the mountain village of Theologos and founded the capital of the administrative headquarters of the island provides. The pirates were still the early 19th Century.

1813 in Kavala was born and grew up in Theologos vizier of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, the entire island by Sultan Mahmud II for his services rendered. Thasos enjoyed many privileges and a relative independence. On the Greek struggle for liberation from 1821/1822 Thasos also took part. The insurgents thasitischen the community headman Chatzi Giorgis Theo Logos from the defeated Ottoman Garde in Potos and forced them to leave the island.

 

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