Olympus is a seated settlement of black and white beauty and is looking in the store of Karpathos. It is built at an altitude of 310 divisions, during the neck of its foothills requires Prophet Elias of northern Karpathos and is each time from the needy reservations, as well as personal information. The western access of Olympus is steep and can be used from the bottom of the sea to the east of their disposal in the smooth and the offer in its time, in Diafani.

 The Community of Olympus, which belongs to the Municipality of Karpathos, has 556 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. In ancient times the main cities of northern Karpathos were Vrykous which was built at the NW end of the island of Karpathos and Saros which was built in the middle of the East Coast. of the island of Sharia. In the 7th century AD Due to the raids, mainly by the Saracen pirates, the inhabitants of the ancient cities left their original homes on the coast and sought refuge in more mountainous and inaccessible parts of the island, founding the present settlement Olympus, or Elympos in the local idiom.The settlement was built following the architecture of the fortified medieval island settlements and this image remains almost unchanged to this day. The name Olympus is due to the older name of the mountain at the foot of which it was built, which is now called Prophet Elias. Olympus remained until recently cut off from the rest of Greece, even from the rest of Karpathos, thus developing a completely separate and a peculiar cultural tradition, many elements of which it keeps alive until now. Characteristic is the traditional costume of the area that is still worn today by the women of Olympus.Until the 1980s, the road that connected the settlement with the rest of the island was very inaccessible, with the result that the communication of the settlement with the rest of Karpathos was done mainly by sea from the port of Diafani. The improvement of the road network helped a lot in the tourist development of the area which was rapid after 1990. Olympus was a self-governing Demogerontia during the Turkish occupation, subject to the Casa of Karpathos which was part of the Sandzak of Rhodes.During the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese and until the incorporation of these islands in Greece (1912-1948) it became a Local Government of the Italian Islands of the Aegean Sea.

 From 1948 until 2010, finally, it was separate. Local Government Community of the Dodecanese Prefecture of the Greek State. The total area of ​​the Community is 104,876 km2 and its borders include the northern part of Karpathos and the island of Saria. The Community of Olympus has a population of 556 inhabitants and also includes the settlements of Olympus, Diafani, Avlona, ​​Tristomo and the islet of Saria.In 2010 it was incorporated into the single Kallikratio Municipality of Karpathos and since then it has been a Local Community, while with the "Klesthenis" Plan it is one of the ten Communities of the Kleisthenio Municipality of Karpathos, managed by a five-member private association due to the Community Council. of the new Municipality of Karpathos after its establishment on the basis of the Kallikratis Plan, while with a unanimous decision of the Prefectural Council of Dodecanese it has been named "City of the living popular culture of the Dodecanese" (2008).Administratively, the area of ​​the Community of Olympus is a special Municipal Unit of the Municipality of Karpathos.

                                                                                                                              Traditional food of olympos                

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