The Industrial Revolution of Gera 1800 until it's decline.

Around 1850 during pre-industrial times Maria Panagopolo writes: In Mytilene there were workshops close to Castro. The workshops included soap workshops, leather tanning workshops, olive workshops, flour producing workshops and other types of workshops. According to her thesis the capitol was still the main industrial epicenter due to it's close proximity to Castro. There was a Greek and Turkish market. The South Harbor featured soap making workshops, there was also the Ottoman Generals olive oil factory. In the north harbor there were leather tanning work shops. The soap was exported primarily within the Ottoman Empire. Olive oil was exported to different parts of the world and within the Ottoman Empire. Around 1880 the Capital Mytilene started changing because of steam and the Industrial Revolution. The city transformed small work shops into larger factories. It would make sense that the Ottoman Government infrastructure would prefer commerce close to Castro for tax purposes.

During the same period. The Gulf of Gera was magnified with Olive Oil Production Factories, Soap Factories, and a Leather Tanning Factory during the 19th & 20th century. The area was also full of Storage facilities close to the dock and Offices for local and international commerce. More information will published about specific factories, there function in the region of Skopelo and Perama.

Important Timeline

1821-1832 Greek Independence
1826 End of Jani-Cheri
1820's Steam Ship
1850 Industrial Revolution
1867 Earthquake
1912 Lesvos Independence Via First Balkan War
1923 Population Exchange
1941 In May German's Take Lesvos Under Major Von Schellwitz
1941 December Pearl Harbor is Attacked
1945 Germans Leave Island June
1946-49 Greek Civil War

Key Words-Questions

Olive Oil Pomace
Food Requisitioning
Did Nazi's Requisition Everything? Olive Oil, Soap, Caned Sardines, Ouzo, Tanned Leather, Lantern Oil, Flour, Corn, Fish, Figs, Walnuts, Salt (Kalloni) etc

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