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Karpathos
On 17th of Aipril 1821, the islands of Samos, Kasos, Karpathos, Halki, Tilos, Nisiros, Leros, Patmos ans Astipalea rebelled against the Turkish occupation. The agas, the Turkish administrator who lived in Volada, escaped trough the port of Diafani. According to the article 122, Turkey handed over the islands of Aegean Sea to Italy (8 September 1922). On 7 March 1948, Karpathos along with the rest of the Dodecanese was united with Greece. The Turkish and the Venetian occupation changed Karpathos radically, which is a part of the group of islands with the common name Dodecanese (Twelve Islands). Its position in the center of the triangle formed by Crete, Rhodes and Asia Minor made Karpathos an important island.
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This
island is located between the two well know Greek islands of Rhodes
and Crete, with a history dating back to the Minoan era and Mycenean
tombs and settlements going back to the second millennium B.C. In
Doric times (1000 BC) it was referred to as Tetrapolis, after the
four famous cities, Potideo (Pigadia), Arkessia (the present
Arkasa), Vrykous and Nissyros (in the area of Olympos). In the
Classic and Hellenistic periods followed the history of the rest of
Greece. In 42 BC Karpathos was conquered by the Romans and later
became part of the Byzantine Empire. From the 7th to 10th century
the pirates ravaged A.D. Karpathos. The people who lived close to
the sea moved to the mountains. The Genoans, St. John’s Knights, the
Venetians and the Turks invaded the island. In the 1821 revolution,
Karpathos was liberated and in 1830 was given back to the Turks
under a treaty. In 1912 the Italians conquered the island and in
1948 it was liberated and joined the rest of Greece. - RAM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS -