Residents sought refuge on islands such as Mytilene and Chios, but also on the opposite coast of Asia Minor.

The abandonment of the island led the inhabitants who remained in it, to live on inaccessible areas, invisible from the sea side.

In "Samiaka" , Stamatiadis mentions the following: Kontakaiika and the best Kotakaiika, are located on a fertile hill 150 meters above the sea.

As a result, the island was almost deserted.The few remaining inhabitants had no hope of surviving living in lowland areas, visible to pirates.

These places became known as Castles or Little Castles.Castles were created and inhabited mainly on the northern side of the island, such as those near today's Avlakia, near Vourliotes and near our village.

The vigilantes from their villas, their observatories, gazed at the sea all day and alerted in any way they could, mainly by lighting fires, so that the inhabitants could return quickly to the Castle and secure its usually strong and durable door.Those residents who were away from the Castle at the time were rushing to shelter in places they already knew and were destined for emergency shelters.

Kritikidis , in his treatise On the desolation and openness of Samos[4] states that 350 houses and 2 temples were built in Kastrovouni of Kontakaiika.

Let's see what Stamatiadis says in his "Samiaka"[2] about the Castle of our village:West of Kontakaika and at an altitude of 950 meters rises Kastrovouni, at the top of which are preserved ancient reservoirs and ruins of walls and coves that testify that once there was a fortress here.

A relief depicting a man and a woman sitting on a stool opposite a tripod was also found in the area.

The contribution of the residents of our village to the historical events that occupied the island of Samos and Greece in general is memorable.

During the Balkan wars of 1912-1913, the village gave many fighters, who for this reason started from the island and arrived in the long-suffering Macedonia, uniting their bodies with those of the Macedonian warriors.

The Hero in the square of our village stood up in honor of the fallen Kontakiotes in the Struggle for the liberation of Macedonia.

Historians typically report that not a single rifle fell, but was handed over to the Italian administration under unclear historical circumstances.

However, the winter of 1941-1942, with the island under Italian occupation, led the Samians to despair, with the deaths of the inhabitants from starvation that had no precedent.

The supervision of the island passes to the British, while the command of the Greek guerrillas again establishes in our village a company of soldiers as a militia, with the main purpose of preserving the order and security of the people.

The Germans arrested and executed Italian soldiers who were opposed to fascist Italy and had sided with the Greeks.

Finally, in September 1944, German occupation troops withdrew, and the islanders breathed a sigh of relief.

When one examines the historical presence of the village, one does not have the luxury of leaving out the important elements for the evolution of the population in the past decades and centuries that it discovers.

In 460 normal houses in the village, 160 do not have electricity, 360 do not have a bathroom, 390 do not have central heating, 30 do not have a kitchen, 100 do not have water supply and 130 do not have sewerage.

The reason for the creation of the settlements was mainly the need of many residents to live close to their crops, in order to facilitate as much as possible their already exhausting daily life.

The first ruler of Samos, Stefanos Vogoridis, sent his Commissioner Alexios Fotiadis to proclaim the work of the Second General Assembly of Samia on 5-2-1837.