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35-431: Homer calls the island Krapathos, with metathesis of two letters in the first syllable. Other names of the island include Tetrapolis and Anemoessa. The present municipality of Karpathos was formed at the 2011 local government reform, by the merger of the following two former municipalities, that became municipal units: The municipality has an area of 324.800 km, and the municipal unit spans 219.924 km. Karpathos

70-563: A hot semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification : BSh ). The island has one of the mildest winters in Europe, and according to the Hellenic National Meteorological Service , the lowest temperature that has been recorded, was 2.2 °C (36 °F) on 9 February 1976 and 14 February 2004. Karpathos Island National Airport , with its relatively large runway, is located on the south side (Afiartis area). Karpathos

105-523: A non-African culture built the original structures. Modern archaeologists now agree that the city was the product of a Shona-speaking African civilization. In 1893, he investigated the ruins of Axum and other places in northern Ethiopia , which had previously been made known in part by the researches of Henry Salt and others. His book The Sacred City of the Ethiopians (1893) gives an account of this expedition. Bent now visited at considerable risk

140-415: A particular moral fault that often led to their own downfall. For instance, sly and clever Prometheus could perhaps represent crafty scheming; the inept and guileless Epimetheus, foolish stupidity; the enduring, strongest and powerful Atlas, excessive daring; and the arrogant Menoetius, rash violence. Iapetus as the progenitor of mankind has been equated with Japheth ( יֶפֶת ), the son of Noah , based on

175-617: A port of call for the Argonauts travelling between Libya and Crete ( Κάρπαθος: ἔνθεν δ' οἵγε περαιώσεσθαι ἔμελλον ). The island is also mentioned by Diodorus who claims it was a colony of the Dorians , Pomponius Mela , Pliny the Elder , and Strabo . The Karpathians sided with Sparta in the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE and lost their independence to Rhodes in 400 BCE. In 42 BCE,

210-468: A significant Greek-American constituency who have returned to their island and invested heavily. Inhabitants of the mountains to the north are more traditional. Among 19th-century explorers of the island were the British explorers Theodore and Mabel Bent in the spring of 1885. Most of their energies were spent in excavating the site of Vroukounta in the far north of the island. Some of their finds are now in

245-479: Is a Titan , the son of Uranus and Gaia and father of Atlas , Prometheus , Epimetheus , and Menoetius . He was also called the father of Buphagus and Anchiale in other sources. Iapetus was linked to Japheth ( Hebrew : יֶפֶת ), one of the sons of Noah and a progenitor of mankind in biblical accounts. The practice by early historians and biblical scholars of identifying various historical nations and ethnic groups as descendants of Japheth, together with

280-413: Is connected to neighboring islands and to the mainland via ferries and airplanes. The ferries provide transport to and from Piraeus (via Crete and Rhodes ). Scheduled domestic flights connect the island with Rhodes, Kasos , Crete and Athens daily. Additionally, charter flights from various European cities are frequently scheduled during the high season (April–October). Within the island, cars are

315-423: Is considered the most important festival on the island. Individuals travel from around the world to attend the festival and view the many traditions that still remain on the island. The beaches of Karpathos island can be divided into four large groups: the beaches on the east coast are smaller and gravelly but without wind; the beaches of the southern part of the island, near the airport, are made of fine white sand;

350-625: Is son of the goddess Themis with no father named (but still with at least Atlas as a brother). However, in Horace 's Odes, in Ode 1.3 Horace writes "audax Iapeti genus ... Ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit" ("The bold offspring of Iapetus [i.e. Prometheus] ... brought fire to peoples by wicked deceit"). Hesiod and other Greek scholars regarded the sons of Iapetus as mankind's ancestors and as such, some of humanity's worst qualities were said to have been inherited from these four gods, each of whom were described with

385-504: Is the mythological homeland of the Titan Iapetus , and the birthplace of Proteus . The island of Karpathos was in both ancient and medieval times closely connected with Rhodes . Its current name is mentioned, with a slight shift of one letter, in Homer 's Iliad as Krapathos ( οἳ δ' ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ' εἶχον Κράπαθόν τε Κάσον τε ). Apollonius of Rhodes , in his epic Argonautica , made it

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420-465: Is usually described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys named either Clymene (according to Hesiod and Hyginus) or Asia (according to Apollodorus ). In Hesiod 's Works and Days , Prometheus is addressed as "son of Iapetus", and no mother is named. However, in Hesiod's Theogony , Clymene is listed as Iapetus' wife and the mother of Prometheus. In Aeschylus 's play Prometheus Bound , Prometheus

455-697: The British Museum , London. The island is located about 47 kilometres (29 miles) southwest of Rhodes , in the part of the Mediterranean which is called the Carpathian Sea ( Latin : Carpathium Mare ). The Sea of Crete , a sub-basin of the Mediterranean Sea, has its eastern limit defined by the island of Karpathos. Karpathos' highest point is Kali Limni, at 1,215 metres (3,986 ft). Karpathos comprises 11 villages. Pigadia (official name Karpathos ),

490-635: The Shona people . To this end, in 1891, he made, along with his wife and the Glaswegian surveyor Robert McNair Wilson Swan (1858-1904), a colleague from Bent's time on Antiparos in 1883/4, the first detailed examination of the Great Zimbabwe . Bent described his work in The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland (1892). Famously, Victor Loret and Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher denounced this view, and claimed that

525-618: The Bents returned with in the 1890s. Some shells carry the Bent name today (e.g. Lithidion bentii and Buliminus bentii ). Several plants and seeds the Bents brought back from Southern Arabia are now in the Herbarium at Kew Gardens ; one such specimen being Echidnopsis Bentii , collected on his last journey in 1897. Bent is also commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Arabian lizard, Uromastyx benti . Some of Bent’s original notebooks held in

560-898: The Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia , his discoveries and conclusions being communicated to the Journal of Hellenic Studies and other magazines and reviews; his investigations on the Cycladic island of Antiparos are of note. In 1889, he undertook excavations in the Bahrein Islands of the Persian Gulf , looking for evidence that they had been a primitive home of the Phoenician civilization; he and his wife returned to England via Persia (Iran), being introduced to Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar along

595-610: The almost unknown Hadramut country (1893–1894), and during this and later journeys in southern Arabia he studied the ancient history of the country, its physical features and actual condition. On the Dhofar coast in 1894-1895, he visited ruins which he identified with the Abyssapolis of the frankincense merchants. In 1895-1896, he examined part of the African coast of the Red Sea , finding there

630-471: The capital and main port of the island, is located in the southeast of the island. The capital is surrounded by the villages of Menetes, Arkasa, Finiki, Pyles, Othos, Volada and Aperi. The villages of Mesochori and Spoa are located in central Karpathos while Olympos and the second port of Karpathos Diafani are in the north . The island Saria was once united with Karpathos, but an earthquake divided them. Saria preserves many important antiquities. Karpathos has

665-848: The island and the rest of the Dodecanese, during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12. On that day, sailors from the Regia Marina battleship Vittorio Emanuele and the destroyer Alpino landed in Karpathos. With the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) , Karpathos joined the other islands of the Dodecanese in the Italian possession of the Italian Aegean Islands . The Italians occupied the island until September 1943, when Italy surrendered. Afterwards, Karpathos

700-578: The island fell to Rome. After the division of the Roman Empire in 395 CE, the island became part of the Byzantine Empire . Of its Christian bishops, the names that are known of are; Olympius, who was a supporter of Nestorius , Zoticus (in 518), Mennas (in 553), Ioannes, Leo (in 787), and Philippus (in 879). In the 14th century, the island was a see of the Latin Church , four of whose bishops bore

735-634: The name Nicolaus. No longer a residential bishopric, Karpathos (in Latin Carpathus) is today listed by the Catholic Church as an archiepiscopal titular see . In 1304, Karpathos was given as fief to the Genoese corsairs Andrea and Lodovico Moresco , but in 1306 it fell to Andrea Cornaro , a member of the Venetian Cornaro family. The Cornaro controlled Karpathos until 1538, when it passed into

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770-575: The possession of the Ottoman Turks . During the Greek War of Independence from 1821 to 1822, the island rebelled, but afterwards it fell again under Ottoman rule. In 1835, Sultan Mahmud II conceded to the island the privilege of the maktu tax system; that is, the tax was calculated as an annual lump sum, and not on a household basis. The Ottoman rule ended on 12 May 1912, when the Italians occupied

805-471: The preferred mode of transportation. The port, the airport, the main villages and other popular locations are connected by an adequate system of municipal roads, most of which are paved. During the summer months, small private boats depart from Pigadia to various locations daily, including Olympos (via Diafani) and some inaccessible beaches. Fixed-rate taxis ( agoraia ) and municipal buses are also available all year long. The municipality's 2021 census population

840-928: The results of their last expedition into those regions. The majority of Bent's collections (hundreds of artefacts but relatively few on display) is to be found in the British Museum , London. Smaller collections are kept at: The Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford, UK; The Victorian and Albert Museum , London, UK; Royal Botanic Garden , Kew, London, UK; The Natural History Museum , London, UK; Sulgrave Manor , Banbury, UK; Harris Museum and Art Gallery , Preston, UK. Overseas: The Benaki Museum , Athens, Greece; The Archaeological Museum, Istanbul , Turkey; The South African Museum , Cape Town, South Africa; The Great Zimbabwe Museum , Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Some manuscripts are archived at The Royal Geographical Society , London, UK; The Hellenic and Roman Library , Senate House, London, UK; The British Library , London, UK. The Natural History Museum , London, has small collections of shells and insects

875-570: The ruins of a very ancient gold-mine and traces of what he considered Sabaean influence. While on another journey in South Arabia and Socotra (1896–1897), Bent was seized with malarial fever , and died in London on 5 May 1897, a few days after his return. Mabel Bent, who had contributed by her skill as a photographer and in other ways to the success of her husband's journeys, published in 1900 Southern Arabia, Soudan and Sakotra , which she recorded

910-454: The sandy beaches on the west coast are the most exposed to the Meltemi and they are available only in low wind conditions; the beaches of the north of the island are accessible only by sea and partly by jeep. Iapetus In Greek mythology , Iapetus ( / aɪ ˈ æ p ɪ t ə s / ; eye- AP -ih-təs ; Ancient Greek : Ἰαπετός , romanized :  Iapetós ), also Japetus ,

945-530: The similarity of their names and the tradition, reported by Josephus ( Antiquities of the Jews ), which made Japheth the ancestor of the " Japhetites ", i.e. the Indo-European speaking peoples . Iapetus was linked to Japheth by 17th-century theologian Matthew Poole (and more recently by Robert Graves ) and by John Pairman Brown. James Theodore Bent James Theodore Bent (30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897)

980-634: The similarity of their names, led to a fusion of their identities, from the early modern period to the present. Iapetus ("the Piercer") is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as being in Tartarus with Cronus . He is a brother of Cronus, who ruled the world during the Golden Age but is now locked up in Tartarus along with Iapetus, where neither breeze nor light of the sun reaches them. Iapetus' wife

1015-577: The time of their marriage, they went abroad nearly every year, beginning with extended travels in Italy and Greece . In 1879, he published a book on the republic of San Marino , entitled A Freak of Freedom , and was made a citizen of San Marino; in the following year appeared Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell , and in 1881 a Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi . The couple's researches in the Aegean archipelago over

1050-563: The way. After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea , where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa , with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland , of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa . Bent believed the Zimbabwe ruins had originally been built by the ancestors of

1085-473: The winters of 1882/3 and 1883/4 culminated in Bent's The Cyclades; or, Life among the Insular Greeks (1885). At the time of Bent's death in 1897, the couple resided at 13 Great Cumberland Place, London, and Sutton Hall , outside Macclesfield , Cheshire, UK. From this period Bent concentrated particularly on archaeological and ethnographic research. The years 1883-1888 were devoted to investigations in

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1120-470: Was 6,567 inhabitants. This number more than doubles in the summer months as many Karpathian expatriates come to the island for their vacation with their families. Also, taking into consideration the number of tourists that visit, there can be up to 20,000 people on the island during the summer months. The population density is greatest on the 15th of August due to the Panagias festival ( Dormition of Mary ), which

1155-549: Was an English explorer , archaeologist , and author . James Theodore Bent was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1852, the son of James (1807-1876) and Eleanor (née Lambert, c.1811-1873) Bent of Baildon House, Baildon , near Bradford , Yorkshire , where Bent lived in his boyhood. He was educated at Malvern Wells preparatory school, Repton School , and Wadham College, Oxford , where he graduated in 1875. His paternal grandparents were William (1769-1820) and Sarah (née Gorton) Bent; it

1190-554: Was occupied by German forces, who eventually left the island on 4 October 1944. The island was ceded by Italy to Greece with the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947 . The island formally joined the Kingdom of Greece on 7 March 1948, together with the other Dodecanese islands. In the late 1940s and 1950s, due to the economic problems after World War II, a number of Karpathians emigrated to the U.S. eastern seaboard cities; Karpathos today has

1225-404: Was this William Bent who founded Bent's Breweries , a successful business which, in various guises, was still in existence into the 1970s, and which helped generate the family's wealth. One of Bent's uncles, Sir John Bent , the brewer, was Liverpool mayor in 1850–51. In 1877, Bent married Mabel Hall-Dare (1847-1929) who became his companion, photographer, and diarist on all his travels. From

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