Chintz
a highly calendered cotton gaily printed with designs of flowers, etc., in five or six different colors.
CHIOGGIA (kē-ōj'yä), or CHIOZZA, an important seaport town of northern SW Italy, 15 miles S. S. W. of Venice, on an S.
W. of Venice, on an 31-Vol. II-Cyc CHIOS island at the S. end of the Venetian Lagoon, connected with the mainland by a stone bridge of 43 arches. It is founded on piles, and has a cathedral; its harbor, the deepest in the lagoon, is guarded by forts and batteries. Pop. about 40,000, most of them engaged in the coasting trade, lace-making, weaving, shipbuilding, and fishing. CHIOS (now called by the natives Chio, Italianized into Scio), one of the most beautiful and fertile islands in the Ægean Sea, formerly belonging to Turkey, now a possession of Greece, 7 miles off the coast of Asia Minor, at the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna; about 30 miles long from N. to S., by 8 to 15 miles broad, with a coast-line of about 110 miles, an area of 320 square miles, and a population of about 75,000, almost all Greeks. The larger N. part is more mountainous than the S. The climate is delightful and salubrious. Earthquakes are, however, not rare, and one in 1881 caused the death of 3,558 persons, and the destruction of much property. The wine produced on the N. W. coast, the Vinum Arvisium of ancient times, is still esteemed. Other products are figs, also noted in classical days; mastic, silk, lemons, oranges, and olives. Goats' skins are also exported. The capital, Chios, about the middle of the E. coast, contains about 15,000 inhabitants, and has a haven touched by various services of steamers, and doing a good trade. On the W. coast is a rich monastery, Nea-Moni, founded in the 11th century. In ancient times excellent marble and potters' clay were quarried in the mountains, and recently pits of antimony and ochre have been worked.