According to the A. Miheli, The A. Moshidis had reported the information that Thanos was named thus by some Athanassios rich country owner of the region, that came from village Thanos of Arkadia(Peloponnesos). Initially the village was found near in the sea, in the place stivi-Saint Yannis at their kapsidelii-Komninos or in the place Plate at the N. Lymperi.
From there left the residents for the fear of piracy. These locomotions to the hinterland, that him we will meet in a lot of villages, happened mainly in the dues of 17 and in the beginnings of 18 of century, afterwards the Enetians-Turks wars. Certain interior villages however preexisted and they had been created older, before the 16 of century, when again the island knew a period of insecurity and raids. Result of these locomotions is do not exist today except a lot of settlements in the island.