Mytilene (Lesbos)

During the First Balkan War, Greek troops occupied Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, taking it from the Ottoman Empire. 
 * In 1912, various then-current Turkish stamps were overprinted Ελληνιχη / Καrοχη / Μυτιληνης (here without accents). It can be found reading up or down.
 * The same year, surcharges were made using the above stamps.
 * Lesbos and most of the Aegean Islands became part of Greece in February 1914, formally acknowledged in 1923.

