Editing Zakynthos (section)

===Venetian period and modern era===
By 1460, and during the reign of [[Mehmed II]], the Ottoman Turks eventually controlled most of the [[Peloponnese]] with the exception of the remaining Venetian-controlled towns of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], [[Nafplio]], [[Monemvassia]], [[Methoni, Messenia|Methoni]], and [[Koroni]]. After the collapse of the [[Hexamilion]], which was supposed to act as a defense across the [[Isthmus of Corinth]], and hence, protect the Peloponnese, Leonardo III Tocco made an agreement with [[Venice]] to accept 10,000 refugees from this region. Leonardo III Tocco and his realm were increasingly vulnerable to Ottoman Turkish attacks. These refugees consisted of Greeks, [[Arvanites]], and some Venetian officials.<ref name="Κολυβά1989">{{cite book |last1=Κολυβά |first1=Μ. |title=Η Ζάκυνθος μεταξύ του α' και του γ' βενετο-τουρκικού πολέμου. Συμβολή στην πολιτική ιστορία και στην ιστορία των θεσμώ |date=1989 |publisher=Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών-Φιλοσοφική Σχολή-Τμ. Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας |location=Greece}}</ref>
Zakynthos was captured by the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1478 but conquered by the [[Republic of Venice]] in 1482.<ref name="ODB"/> It remained in Venetian hands, as part of the [[Venetian Ionian Islands]], until the [[Fall of the Republic of Venice]] in 1797. It then passed successively under [[French rule in the Ionian Islands (1797–1799)|French rule]], became part of the autonomous [[Septinsular Republic]] in 1800, and [[French rule in the Ionian Islands (1807–1814)|returned to the French]] in 1807. Seized by the British in 1809, it formed part of the [[United States of the Ionian Islands]] until the [[Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece]] in 1864.

====World War II====
{{further|Rescue of the Jews of Zakynthos|History of the Jews in Zakynthos}}

During the [[Axis occupation of Greece]], Mayor [[Loukas Karrer]] and Bishop [[Chrysostomos Dimitriou]] refused German orders to turn in a list of the members of the town's Jewish community for deportation to the death camps. Instead they hid all (or most) of the town's Jewish people in rural villages. According to some sources, all 275 Jews of Zakynthos survived the war.<ref name="Holocaust Museum">{{cite web |url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/holocaust-in-greece/zakynthos |title=Zakynthos |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|access-date=1 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The miraculous story of the Jews of Zakynthos|url=http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/The-miraculous-story-of-the-Jews-of-Zakynthos|access-date=10 January 2018|work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com}}</ref> Both were later recognized as [[Righteous Among the Nations|Righteous among the Nations]] by [[Yad Vashem]]. In contrast, over 80% of Greek Jews were deported to [[Extermination camp|death camps]] and murdered in [[the Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.afjmg.org/resources/jewingreece.pdf ''History of the Jewish Communities of Greece'', American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629161504/http://www.afjmg.org/resources/jewingreece.pdf |date=2007-06-29 }}, afjmg.org. Retrieved 7 December 2014.</ref>