This island, which contains the asbestos-rich Okhi Mountains and the fertile Lilas River valley, is separated from the mainland by the Euripus Strait.
This island, which contains the asbestos-rich Okhi Mountains and the fertile Lilas River valley, is separated from the mainland by the Euripus Strait. Once known as Macris, to its northeast lies the Sporades archipelago. One of its major towns, Eretria, suffered defeat in the Lelantine War at the hands of its other major city, Chalcis. A promontory on its north coast was the site of the Battle of Artemisium in 480 BC. FTP, name this second ►largest of the Aegean islands after Crete, situated just across from Boeotia. 
This island, which contains the asbestos-rich Okhi Mountains and the fertile Lilas River valley, is separated from the mainland by the Euripus Strait.
Euboea (or Evia)