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 |