Kárpathos

Karpathos lies in the southeastern Aegean, an island whose history was closely tied to nearby Rhodes. Its cities appeared on the tribute lists of the ancient Delian League, and the island later lost its independence to Rhodes. In 1304 it was granted to Genoese corsairs, but two years later passed to Andrea Cornaro of Venice. His family held Karpathos until the Ottomans took it in 1538. The island rebelled during the Greek War of Independence in 1821–22, but returned to Ottoman rule. In 1835 Sultan Mahmud II granted Karpathos the #italic maktu#! tax system, under which a fixed annual sum was assessed for the island instead of separate assessments for each household.