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Karpathos

Karpathos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is one of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality of Karpathos. This in turn is part of the Karpathos regional unit. Because of its remote location, Karpathos has preserved many peculiarities of clothing, customs and dialect. The dialect is very similar to that of Crete and Cyprus. The island has also been called Carpathus in Latin, Scarpanto in Italian and Kerpe in Turkish.

Images for kids

  • Scarpanto by Giacomo Franco

    Map of Karpathos (Scarpanto), by Giacomo Franco, 1597

  • KarpathosVillages

    The twelve villages of Karpathos

  • Olymbos

    The community of Olympos

  • Pigadia - Basilika Agia Fotini 1

    Remains of the early Christian basilica of St Fotini, Pigadia

  • Diafáni - 2

    Diafáni village.

  • Diafáni – main church - 1

    Main church of Diafani

  • Diafáni – Fountain of Neptune - 1

    Modern fountain of Neptune (Poseidon) in Diafáni.

  • Menetés-2

    Menetes village.

  • Pigadia(gwz)

    The Administration Building in Papagos Square, Pigadia, also houses the Karpathos Archaeological Museum.

  • I Scarpanthos - Buondelmonti Cristoforo - 1420

    Map of Karpathos, by Buondelmonti Cristoforo, 1420.

  • AOKsideview

    The airport

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Kárpatos para niños

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