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Karpasi - See on Map

According to the local tradition, the village was located in the valley.

 

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According to the local tradition, the village was located in the valley where today is the airport, specifically in the site Trochalomandra, where debris and ruins of houses have been found. But the pirate attacks, forced the inhabitants to move to the low high ground Karpas, which is east of the great plains of central Limnos. About the origin of the place name, various versions have been formulated. In one version, the appellation of the hill and then the village came from the Turkish «karabas: black head" in a second of the «kalpak: kalpaki, abbot cap" while a third, connects the place name with the plant "Karpas: type of flax or cotton," which was abounded there.

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