sentences:  Egyptian rule was relatively benign (by some accounts Muhammad Ali had either been born or spent his infancy on Thasos) and the island became prosperous, until 1908, when the New Turk regime asserted Turkish control.The island was a "kaza" (sub-province), lastly of the Sanjak of Drama in the Salonica Vilayet, until the Balkan Wars.On 20 October 1912 during the First Balkan War, a Greek naval detachment freed Thasos from the Ottomans and it became part of Greece.