Our school and our island!

EPAL of Karpathos is a vocational senior high school in the island of Karpathos. It has 15 teachers and 75 pupils, offering both technical and general studies. The school is located in the remote island of Karpathos, in the Dodecanese Archipelago.

The school building has 5 classrooms, two computer labs and one electrical engineering lab. Currently, our students have the opportunity to choose among electrical engineering, informatics and finance sectors and obtain the corresponding certificate.

"Mind the Gap" is the first Comenius project for our school.

 

And a little information about our island:

 

According to mythology, the first inhabitant of Karpathos was the Titan Impetus who was the son of Uranus and Gaia.

Another mythological interpretation says that the first settlers were the Titans, who were living there before the battle of the Titans took place.
 
In 478 BC, Karpathos participated in the First Athenian Alliance; it was Athens’s ally during the Peloponnesian Wars that took place from 431 to 404 BC, but after the Athenian defeat, the island succumbed to the Spartans; it became again part of the Athenian Alliance in 397 BC and became independent.
 
With the beginning of the Greek War for Independence on 1821, Karpathos also joined the fight and offered its land for refugees and gave money for the supply of the Greek revolutionary troopes and the repair of the Greek ships.
Karpathos History

Archaeological finds proved that the island was inhabited during the Neolithic times and that the Minoans had a great influence on the civilisation that lived there; some ones even believe that the Minoans settled on Karpathos.

The remains of the acropolis at Arkasa built by the Mycenaeans after arriving on the island during the 14th century BC, followed by the Phoenicians.

Then the Dorians settled on Karpathos around 1000 BC and brought great prosperity to it, developing four fortified cities.
 
The island of Karpathos owned Karpathos during the Hellenistic period.
Then various invaders succeeded: first came the Romans, followed by the Arabs, the Sericucians, the Mauritanians, the Genovese pirate Moresco, the Venetians and the Ottomans.
But the Turks were never interested in the improvement and maintenance of Karpathos and never inhabited it; they just sent officers to collect the taxes, once in a while.
  The island of Karpathos became independent in 1823, becoming a province of Santorini.

But, in 1830, the protocol of London gave the islands of the Dodecanese (of which Karpathos is part) to the Turks.

The Italians invaded the island in 1912.
They were joined by the Germans who came on Karpathos in 1943, during World War II and left on the 4th of October 1944.

On the 5th of October 1944, the inhabitants of Karpathos started to revolt against the Italians and managed to free their island on the 17th of October 1944.

Karpathos became part of the independent Greek State on the 7th of March 1948.

source: https://www.greeka.com/dodecanese/karpathos/karpathos-history.htm

 

Pigadia (Port), Karpathos Island

The town of Karpathos, better known as Pigadia (meaning “wells” in Greek) is the capital and the bigger port of the island. The town is situated at the southeastern coast of the island at the foot of the mountain Kali Limni (“the nice lake” in Greek), built on the place of the ancient settlement of Poseidion. Pigadia has been developed to a small modern town, thanks to the aid of the locals who have migrated to America.
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