Kassos (alias Amphe, Achne, Astravi) was named after Kassos, son of Kleomahos of Crete. The island, under the command of Kos, participated in the Troian War, while it was conquered by Rhodes in the 8th century BC and, in the 5th-4th century BC, it was a member to the Athenian Alliance. In 1688, Kassos was referred to as a steep rock and a pirate refuge, since Emborios was ruined it for an unknown reason. In 1821, Kassos had a fleet of 83 battle ships, and captains such as Markos Maliarakis, Hatzi Mavris, Theodoros Kadartzis. This fleet caused severe damage to the Turkish fleet near Crete. In May 1821, after Zacharias' betrayal, the Turks disembarked on the unguarded coast of Andiperatos and, after an unequal and ruthless battle, only a few people from Kavos survived. Life on the island was restored many years later, when things were not the same as before. In 1860, during the construction of the Suez canal, the people of Kassos worked as builders and lived there, as well as in Ismaelia and Port-Side. The London Protocol gave Kassos to the Turkish command until 1912, when -like all the Dodecanese islands- Kassos came under Italian rule until 1945. It was united with Greece in 1948.