Karpathian Sea

Between Crete and Rhodes, the Karpathian Sea takes its name from the island of Karpathos. Together with neighboring Kasos, the island lies along a route from Crete toward Rhodes and the southeastern Aegean. Karpathos was closely connected with Rhodes in antiquity and the Middle Ages. In 1306 it passed to the Venetian Cornaro family, who held it until 1538, when the Ottomans took possession of the island.