In 844 BC Ionian colonizers from Miletus occupied the area and they were the first Greek-speaking inhabitants.
Halonia island was under Byzantine rule until the Ottoman Empire captured the archipelago in 15th century.
In 1923 Turkey and Greece agreed to exchange the population and Greek-speaking people of the island left.
Today the local people of the island are originally from Greece, Bosnia and Black Sea Region of Turkey.
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