Hermoupolis is the capital and main city of the island of Syros and the Cyclades prefecture.
Was founded within the blaze of the Greek Revolution in 1821, as an extension to the existing Ano Syros township, by refugees who fled from Chios, Psara, Kydonia, Kassos and elsewhere to save their lives from the Turkish massacre.
It soon became the leading commercial and industrial center of Greece, as well as its main port.
Thousands of ships were built in the various Syros shipyards.
The city
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Hermoupolis, the capital city of elegance and nobleness "Greece was reborn in Hermoupolis..." Eleftherios Venizelos said.
In the Greek entirety and particularly in the Cyclades, Hermoupolis enjoys the greatest density in the neoclassical history of architecture. Built in an amphithetrical way, comprises of neoclassical buildings, old mansions, marble paved streets, squares, churches, white washed houses on the surrounding hills and mausoleums.
Compared favorably with Paris in a poem by I. Lagadakis (1905), the city of Hermoupolis is a watershed in contemporary Greek history: the first city in the new Greece. During the entire 19th century it presided over the nation's economic and political life.
The first colonists in 1821 came from Smyrni and Aivali, followed by those from Chios and Psara and every corner of Greece. Along with the Greeks, many foreigners also chose to reside here. In 1825 the new city had already been born. On the hillsides above the port new houses were being built.
From 1822, Syros and Mykonos comprised the 'Eparchy (Province) of Mykonos and Syros'. In spite of the appointment of a Greek Politarchy, the French refused to accept any Greek high-governing body on the island, preferring their king, as of old.
Hermoupolis
Hermoupolis is the capital and main city of the island of Syros and the Cyclades prefecture. 
Hermoupolis, the capital city of elegance and nobleness
Compared favorably with Paris in a poem by I. Lagadakis (1905), the city of Hermoupolis is a watershed in contemporary Greek history: the first city in the new Greece. During the entire 19th century it presided over the nation's economic and political life.