Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for destination: "KARPATHOS Island DODEKANISSOS".
An island S.W. of the Peloponnese (Hdt. 3,45).
Carpathos, which the poet calls Crapathos, is high, and has a circuit of two hundred stadia. At first it was a Tetrapolis, and it had a renown which is worth noting; and it was from this fact that the sea got the name Carpathian. One of the cities was called Nisyros, the same name as that of the island of the Nisyrians. It lies opposite Leuce Acte in Libya, which is about one thousand stadia distant from Alexandreia and about four thousand from Carpathos.
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