Editing Volos (section)

===Ottoman era===
{{Further|Ottoman Greece}}
[[File:VolanakisVolosHarbour.jpg|thumb|240px|''The port of Volos'' by [[Konstantinos Volanakis|Constantine Volanakis]] (c.1875).]]
Ottoman rule was not yet firm. The first period of Ottoman control lasted from 1393 to 1397, followed by another {{circa|1403}}, but it was not until 1423 that Volos was definitively incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.<ref name="EI2"/> The Ottoman name of the city was {{langx|ota|قلز|Quluz}}.<ref name="EI2"/> The Ottomans strengthened the town's fortifications against a possible [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] attack, and installed not only a garrison, but also Muslim settlers from [[Anatolia]].<ref name="EI2"/> The local Christian population in turn moved to the slopes of Pelion.<ref name="EI2"/> From this time on, Volos became the chief settlement on the Pagasetic Gulf.<ref name="TIB166"/>

The city began to spread outside its walls in the late 16th/early 17th centuries, coinciding with a growth in commerce, helped by the city's famed twice-weekly local fair and the first works at the waterfront harbour.<ref name="EI2"/> The fortress was captured by the Venetians under [[Francesco Morosini]] in 1665, during the [[Cretan War (1645–1669)|Cretan War]], but recovered and refortified by the Ottomans.<ref name="EI2"/>

In May 1821, at the beginning of the [[Greek Revolution]], the Greek rebels of Mount Pelion tried to capture the fortress but failed.<ref name="EI2"/> On 8 April 1827, the Greek fleet, under the command of the British [[philhellene]] [[Frank Abney Hastings]], captured five Ottoman ships in the city's harbour and forced the local garrison to evacuate the fortress.<ref name="EI2"/> The provisional government of Greece claimed Volos as part of Greek national territory, but the [[Treaty of Constantinople (1832)]], which established a Greek independent state, set its northern boundary along a line running south from [[Arta, Greece|Arta]] to Volos.<ref>{{cite book| first=John | last= Comstock| title= History of the Greek Revolution| url=https://archive.org/details/historyofgreekre00coms | location= New York |year= 1829|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofgreekre00coms/page/n14 5]|publisher=W. W. Reed & co.}}</ref> Volos was [[Convention of Constantinople (1881)|incorporated into]] the Greek Kingdom in November 1881 with the rest of Thessaly.<ref name="EI2"/>