About the Aegean Sea, its islands and their inhabitants, Chios has been through the centuries a strategic location and a place that hosted royals, bankers, traders & nobles.
Giustiniani is the name of a prominent Italian family which originally belonged to Venice, but also established itself in Genoa, and at various times had representatives in Naples, Corsica and in the islands of the Archipelago, where they had been the last Genoese rulers of the Aegean island of Chios, which had been a family possession for two centuries until 1566.