Editing Andros (section)

===Ottoman period===
When the Ottomans annexed Naxos in 1566, at the behest of the local Greeks, the Andrians too decided to rise up against their ruler, [[Gianfrancesco Sommaripa]]. Although the latter managed to escape with his life, Andros too now came under Ottoman control.{{sfn|Miller|1908|pp=634–636}} For the next thirteen years, the entirety of the former Duchy of the Archipelago was granted to the Sultan's favourite, [[Joseph Nasi]], who ruled the islands via representatives and was mostly concerned with using them as a source of wealth.{{sfn|Miller|1908|pp=637–643}} Upon Nasi's death, the Greeks of Andros and Naxos requested from the Sultan that the descendants of their old dynasties be restored as Turkish vassals, but in the end, the islands were directly annexed as a province; in 1580, however, the Cyclades were granted a charter of privileges that granted them considerable local autonomy, low taxes and religious freedom, a situation that remained throughout the period of Ottoman rule.{{sfn|Miller|1908|pp=643–644}} In the early 1770s, during the [[Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74]], the island was occupied by the [[Russian Empire|Russians]] and used as a base for their operations in the Aegean.<ref name="Archipelago">{{cite web | title = Andros, Chapter 2: History | author1 = Seleli Alexandra |author2=Beneki Eleni |author3= Spiropoulou Vaso |author4= Tsonos Konstantinos | work = Cultural Portal of the Aegean Archipelago | publisher = Foundation of the Hellenic World | url = http://www2.egeonet.gr/AIGAIO/Forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaid=10403&boithimata_State=true&kefalaia_State=true#chapter_2 | date = 28 April 2006 | access-date = 10 April 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>