Skyros (
Greek: Σκύρος) is an island in
Greece, the southernmost of the
Sporades, an archipelago in the
Aegean Sea. Around the
2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as
The Island of the Magnetes where the
Magnetes used to live and later
Pelasgia and
Dolopia and later Skyros. At it is the largest of the Sporades, and has a population of about 3,000 (in 2011). It is part of the regional unit of
Euboea.