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THE Καφηρεύς with the settlements Amyglalea, Evangelismos, Platanistos, Potami is her area Of Evia.
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Cape doros(Cavo D’oro) is also the other name of the cape and which was given by Italian sailors of the 14th and 15th centuries.
History
Settlements or Cities that existed in the area of Kafireas, in antiquity were Archabolis and Gerastos. According to archeological excavations, it dates from between the 8th and the 1st century BC and was abandoned during the Roman era. Kafirea, when strong winds prevailed.
Most of the villages of Cape Doros, as well as the location that are found to this day, date back to the Byzantine era. The area of Kafireas, during the 13th century, is the place of action of the knight Likarios, who took refuge in a fortress near the present village of Zacharia and carried out various raids in the surrounding areas.
After the 4th Crusade, the conditions favored a wider movement of populations to the southern Balkans.
The Venetians favored their stay in Evia[1], and especially in the area of Cabo Doro. All the villages in the area were inhabited by Arvanites except Karystos, Marmari, Styra and the villages of Platanistos.
During the Turkish occupation, the second settlement of the Arvanites took place, which was smaller in scale and lasted until the 16th century. The village of Platanistos and the village of Kapsouri, were then the property of Turkish officials of that time, in the latter there is a site that is still called "rapi turkut" an Arabic word meaning "Turkish plane tree".
Evia was liberated through diplomatic negotiations, in 1832. Many inhabitants of Cape Doros, and especially Arvanites, who had been forcibly converted to Islam or were simply crypto-Christians, did not leave like the Turks but converted to Christianity and gradually became part of the Christian community. such as dialect, adjectives, some customs, etc. At that time it was built on the site where the village of Amygdalia is located today.
After the 50's the total number of inhabitants of the wider area exceeded that of Karystos. Gradually, however, the migration of the inhabitants to the cities of Athens and Karystos began from the end of 1970 and which became more noticeable in the mid-80s when then the biggest turning point for the villages of the area occurs.
Today it is an area with few inhabitants, unknown and isolated, having its own place on the map and remaining known from its cape, which is a passage for ships and is named Cape Doros.
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- ↑ The settlement of Arvanites in southern Evia took place in 1402 and 1425. Archive of Evian studies, volume E "Settlement of Arvanites in Karystia and Attica" p.137 Costas I. Biris.