Lesbos

Lesbos is a Greek Island located in the Aegean Sea. It's capital is Mytilini. It is worth noting that due in part to the female poet Sappho, who wrote poetry about close female relationships, the people of Lesbos got a reputation that followed them for years. For years the people of Lesbos had to deal with the steriotype. To this day 'Lesbian' has been used as a term for homosexual females. In recent times however a minority on the island, which is prodomenently Othodox Greek, have come to embrace this aspect of the islands history, with a musium having been opened focusing on Sappho, and her poetry.

History
The Lesbians have a proud history of poetry, with slight taints of war.

Under the Byzantine Empire
In 803, the Byzantine Empress Irene was exiled to Lesbos, forced to spin wool to support herself, and died on the island.

Modern Lesbos
In 2008 a group of islanders requested a legal injunction to ban groups from using the word "lesbian" in their names, which the petitioners claim violated their human rights as it is "insulting", and disgraces them around the world. A case was brought against the Gay and Lesbian community of Greece, with the islanders loosing the court case.

LBGT Tourism currently plays a major role in the islands economy.

Government
The island is divided into 12 Municipalities. In archaic times the Island has been an Oligarchy, and a Classical Democarcy.

Economy
The Lesbian economy is mostly agricultural in nature; with Olive oil being a major export. Fishing, Wine, and Soup production are also major factors of the economy. Tourism is the 2nd largest economic force on the island, focused on Mytilene, encouraged by its international airport, and the coastal towns of Petra, Plomari, Molyvos and Eresos.

LBGT Tourism
LBGT Tourism is common on the island due to it being both the origin of the term Lesbian, and due to the poems of Sappho. Lesbos, and especially the town of Eresos, Saphho's birthplace, are visited frequently by lesbian tourists. A musium in honor of Saphho can be found in the town of Eresos.

Notable Lesbians
Lesbos is the birthplace of several famous persons. In archaic times, Arion developed the type of poem called dithyramb, the progenitor of tragedy, and Terpander invented the seven note musical scale for the lyre. Two of the nine lyric poets in the Ancient Greek canon, Alcaeus, and Sappho, were from Lesbos. Phanias wrote history. The seminal artistic creativity of those times brings to mind the myth of Orpheus to whom Apollo gave a lyre and the Muses taught to play and sing. When Orpheus incurred the wrath of the god Dionysus he was dismembered by the Maenads and of his body parts his head and his lyre found their way to Lesbos where they have "remained" ever since. Pittacus was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. In classical times Hellanicus advanced historiography, Theophrastus, the father of botany, succeeded Aristotle as the head of the Lyceum. Aristotle and Epicurus lived there for some time, and it is there that Aristotle began systematic zoological investigations. In later times lived Theophanes, the historian of Pompey's campaigns, Longus wrote the famous novel Daphnis and Chloe, and much later the historian Doukas wrote the history of the early Ottoman Turks. In modern times the poet Odysseus Elytis, descendant of an old family of Lesbos received the Nobel Prize.