Venetian period · Village life · Water and mills
1700: ten families and nine working mills
1700 Probable
The Venetian land register of Argos, made for governor Francesco Grimani in 1700, lists for "Civeri": 7 local and 3 newly settled families, one Greek church, 12 state houses, 20 ruined houses and 9 working water mills. That is almost a quarter of all mills in the territory of Argos.
Note: "Civeri" is taken to be Myloi because the springs of Lerna are the only large group of mills in the area; scholars (Panopoulou, Panagiotopoulos) agree, but it remains an identification.
- Threads
- Village life, Water and mills
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- Ευτυχία Δ. Λιάτα, «Αργεία γη. Από το τεριτόριο στο βιλαέτι», ΚΝΕ/ΕΙΕ 82, Αθήνα 2003, πίν. I σ. 111, πίν. III σ. 115, πίν. V σ. 118–119 (ASV, Sindici Inquisitori in Levante, b. 81) Open (opens in a new tab)
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