{"id":40781,"date":"2024-03-02T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/kasos\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:36:07","slug":"kasos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/kasos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fry, the capital of Kasos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

When the island was first colonised is unknown. It is certain, however, during the Minoan Age<\/strong> (3000 – 1400 BC) that the Cretans founded a commercial station in O. Chel\u00e1tros. This harbour provided them with a safe shelter during the summer months and would be their first station for their voyages towards the east. Besides, the sea currents from the north and east of Crete flow towards the east (settlement remains as well as Minoan vases have been found dating from 2000BC). <\/p>\n\n

This is how the Kassians began to explore the sea<\/strong> and hence their naval tradition of over 4000 years and shipping offices today in New York and London. Homer wrote that K\u00e1sos sent ships, together with other Greeks, to fight in the Trojan War. Essentially, the island followed the fate of the other Dodek\u00e1nisa islands throughout history, and mainly was dependent on R\u00f3dos. <\/p>\n\n

From the long history of the island, it is worth remarking upon the time of its Holocaust<\/strong>. As mentioned previously, the Kassians are sailors through and through and as soon as the Greek revolution against the Turks began in 1821, they gave themselves and 100 ships to the disposal of the Nation (indeed, the pioneer of the Naval Battle, Admiral Andr\u00e9as Miao\u00falis, sailed in a Kassian ship). The Turks wanted to punish the island and so the united Turkish \u2013 Egyptian fleet, having overthrown Crete, turned against K\u00e1sos. The Greek Revolutionary Government, as well as H\u00fddra (the main naval force in the revolution), made no response to K\u00e1sos\u2019 appeals for them to send re-enforcements. There were only the 600 Cretans, who had sheltered on the island during the subjugation of Kr\u00edti. History repeated itself again, as the \u201cHistory of the Greek Nation\u201d writes about a Kassian \u201cnightmare\u201d, the curse of the human race that betrayed it. <\/p>\n\n

2000 Albanians reached the island on the backs of the defenders and together with the disembarking enemies placed the defenders between them. Scenes of great heroism <\/strong>followed, and as the \u201cHistory of the Greek Nation\u201d states, the defenders \u201cboth murdered and murdering\u201d opened a road through the enemies and the remaining parties scattered. Terrible scenes followed. The Turkish Albanian forces, with the permission of their leader, slaughtered all males of the island, took the women and children to the slave markets and pillaged the houses. <\/p>\n\n

All this occurred towards the end of May \u2013 beginning of June 1824<\/strong>. Since then the Kassians hold memorials to the Holocaust each year on the 6 – 7th June. After 1840, as things settled down, those islanders who were able to, returned to K\u00e1sos and re-created their fleet. The remarkable sailors worked a miracle (the first pilots to cross the Suez and Panama Canals were both from K\u00e1sos). At the end of the 19th century, the difficult but resolute change from sails to engine power took place. <\/p>\n\n

During both World Wars<\/strong>, the K\u00e1ssians offered their ships to the Allies and lost many men to the sea. However, during recent years the commercial fleet of the island has been drastically reduced (after World War II it comprised one third of the Greek fleet). Finally, after the island passed through the Italian rule during the first half of the 20th century, K\u00e1sos was reunited with Mother Greece in 1948.<\/p>\n\n

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A fishing boat in Chelatros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Sightseeing: <\/strong>The island, like K\u00e1rpathos, is definitely worth a visit. It will be an unforgettable experience and you re-live the \u201cgood old days\u201d. Days of peace not stress. Days where the humane, not money and profit, rules.<\/p>\n\n

Celebrations:<\/strong> The feast of Ag\u00eda Mar\u00edna is held on the 17th July, Metamorph\u00f3sis tou Christo\u00fa on the 6th August and Panag\u00eda on the 15th August. Food and wine are served at all the above and a party is held afterwards.<\/p>\n\n

Flavours:<\/strong> Everybody knows how much a sailor likes his food. This nautical island is no exception and its cuisine has many delicious flavours. The most usual habit is stuffed dishes, for instance stuffed lamb, chicken, courgette flowers etc. Of course this tendency can be found on the other islands of the Aegean. However, the dish that really stands out, in my opinion, is the Kassian \u201cdolm\u00e1kia\u201d (stuffed vine leaves, well known throughout Greece). This is really one of the nicest dishes I have tried to date. Naturally, there are many other dishes, all of which compete with each other for first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the island was first colonised is unknown. It is certain, however, during the Minoan Age (3000 – 1400 BC) that the Cretans founded a commercial station in O. Chel\u00e1tros. This harbour provided them with a safe shelter during the summer months and would be their first station for their voyages towards the east. Besides,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[740,744],"tags":[452,918],"class_list":["post-40781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodecanese","category-islands-of-karpathos-and-kasos","tag-history","tag-kasos","category-740","category-744","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40782,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40781\/revisions\/40782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}