History

The occupation of Thassos from the Turks was in 1455, two years after the fall of Constantinople. Mehmed II was organized a campaign and sent ten ships to Thassos, Samothrace and Imvros. In response the Pope Callistus III proceeded to organize a crusade, which aimed to get back the islands, which had fallen into the hands of the Sultan. In 1457 the Venetians succeeded after a close siege to occupy the island. In 1459 the Sultan was able to recapture the island of Thassos and most residents were displaced in Istanbul.
  In the late 17th and early 18th century, piracy in the Aegean flared and residents of Thassos experienced great suffering. The pirates attempting to Sea were mostly Europeans and even Greeks. Pirates maintained relationships with kings and other persons in high places who provided them every kind of assistance with profit in mind. Finally, in 1813, the Sultan gave Thassos to the Vizier of Egypt Mehmet Ali as a reward. The vizier was born in Kavala and had grown close to a Greek family in a village in Thassos.

During the 1821 revolution, Thassos lived a short break of freedom, when the Greek rebels sailed to the island. The Turks were defeated and expelled in Kavala. In late 1821, the islanders minded pirate attacks signed a treaty with the Pasha of Thessaloniki. It is estimated that during the revolution, more than 1000 people were slaughtered, tortured without hesitation and too many people have lost their property. The island was liberated in the October 8, 1912 by the Greek army and navy and since part of the Greek Republic. Provisional Governor of the island is defined by Constantine Melas (brother of the famous Macedonian Pavlou Mela). He in a letter to Penelope Delta states characteristics that "Thassos is the most beautiful Greek island; a paradise with genuine Greeks firmly patriots and sensitive people."

In the interwar period is characteristic of the arrival of refugees from Asia Minor and Thrace after the catastrophe of 1992. During the same period on the initiative of MP Theologiti August effected the expropriation of the property of Mount Athos and shares the inhabitants of the island.
During the Second World War, Thassos was occupied, like the rest of Greece by the Germans who then ceded to the Bulgarians. The Bulgarian military and political occupation authorities hard metacheiristhikan the Greek population. The island was liberated in 1945.
Nowadays the island of Thassos is considered a beautiful tourist place. The construction of hotels and roads, fast service to ships and dolphins from the ports of Kavala and Keramoti, contribute to the sustainable economic development of the island. Over time Thassos began to regain its former glory, and he was again the beautiful paradise described by Constantine Melas and so many other Greek and foreign writers, poets and travelers.