Mavi Boncuk | Molyvos: 20pa Ottoman stamp (1910 issue) without overprint, tied on corner cover (Maison Hassan Namik, MEVLAVA), with patriotic "ELLAS MOLYVOS". Mithymna, or Molyvos as it was called during the middle ages is in Lesbos.
As Molyvos (Molova) under the Ottoman Empire, the city was a kaza of the sanjak of Metelin in the vilayet of Rhodes. After the defeat of the Ottomans in the First Balkan War (1912), Greece were given Lesbos (Treaty of London, 1913).
The terms enforced by the Great Powers were: All European territory of the Ottoman Empire west of the line between Enos on the Aegean Sea and Midia on the Black Sea was ceded to the Balkan League, except Albania. The Ottoman Empire ceded Crete, while it was left to the Great Powers to determine the fate of the other islands in the Aegean Sea. The borders of Albania and all other questions concerning Albania were to be settled by the Great Powers.