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Skandali

The name of village refered as one of the 25 villages of Limnos that they constituted patriarch exarhate 1321.

The place was gifted in the Patriarchate from somebody place owner , the Skandali. This name is Byzantine and emanates from the word "scandal " . According to the local delivery the village was builted from the abbot of some neighbouring monastery, that was said Skandalios.

A other variant of oral delivery reports that the village initially was found in the place Dry in the V.D. of current and in distance 1.000 m. Sometimes was installed in the village somebody foreiner , which accomplished with frauds and schemings govern and becomes notable. For this the people y named him Skandali. Round his properties, that were found in the current place of village, was created settlement that was named the Skandali, that is also the right name of the village.
On Ottoman domination it is previously quoted as "the Skandali" and previously as "the Skanda'li or Skantali". To Skandali functioned the first school of N.A. Limnos, in 1848, in building where Ioannis Doykarellis gifted (Aigyptian immigrant).
In the region of Ag. of Peace, from the Skandali, is more southernly reported in 1680 from the Piacenza the unknown settlement Carfa