Diafani is one of the 11 villages on the island of Karpathos that belongs to the Dodecanese complex. the estates of Diofanos ". In modern times, the place name has been transformed through paretymology, which has been influenced by words in "Diafani", starting with the word "Transparent" and referring to the transparent, supposedly marine waters of the area. Sometimes, especially until the 1970s, the "Giafani" type was found to be adapted to the linguistic rules of the local idiom. It is the port of the historic village of Olympus and was in the past the intermediate station of the farmers of the island of Saria. during their sea voyage to and from Olympus, as part of their professional pursuits. It gradually evolved into the established gateway of North Karpathos with the outside world. In 1911, the Italian-Turkish war broke out in Libya, and the following year the military operations were transferred to the Dodecanese as an extension. On May 18, 1912, the Italian destroyer Alpino appears in the bay of Diafani and disembarks a military expedition which captures and captures the frightened Turkish coltzides, members of the small Ottoman detachment based in the small village. With the beginning of the Italian occupation, the Turkish Coast Guard Station, which operated during the Ottoman Sultanate in settlement, is replaced by the Station of the Royal Italian Customs. The years of Italian occupation were as difficult in Diafani as in the rest of the Dodecanese. Nevertheless, the Greek patriotic spirit of the local population was kept high all this time.

Thus, when the Revolutionary Liberation Movement of Karpathos broke out on October 5, 1944, by decision of the Revolutionary Committee of Olympus Karpathos, an armed Revolutionary Detachment was formed on October 12 in Diafani. di Finanza Mario Gallerini.On October 18, 1944, the English destroyer Cleveland appeared on the Trans-Euphrates horizon as part of a military mission to retake the already liberated islands of Karpathos and Kassos. After unloading some first supplies of flour and other food for the relief of the population of the two villages of North Karpathos, he boarded the Italians of the disarmed detachments of the governors of the Transparency and the carabinieri of the whole of Athens, as a prisoner of war. English occupation of the Dodecanese (1944-1947), Diafani,as the whole of Karpathos and the whole of the Dodecanese officially joined in 1948, on the basis of the Treaty of Paris, in the Greek state as an integral part of the Local Community of Olympus Karpathos. which in turn belonged to the sandzaki of Rhodes which was also part of the vilayet of the islands of the White Sea.During the Italian occupation, Diafani was again a dependent settlement of the Municipality of Olympus, which was part of the Estate of the Italian Islands of the Aegean Sea. "The Greek local government was administratively integrated as a settlement of the Local Community of Olympus initially and of the Community of Olympus then in the single Municipality of Karpathos. Prior to the implementation of the "Kallikratis Plan", the Greek local government was again a recognized settlement of the Local Community of Olympus Karpathos.

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