Venetian period · Water and mills · Industry and trade
Two mills leased for ever to Giannis Glygorakis
3 October 1703 Probable
Two of the state mills at Kiveri, in a building that housed two more, had been leased for four years to Kyriakos tou Giorgou from Monemvasia for 202 reals; his lease ran out on 21 October 1702. After a public auction they went on 3 October 1703 to Giannis Glygorakis in perpetual lease (perpetuo livello) for 166 reals a year. These are the oldest known names of people who ran the mills.
Note: The 'mills of Kiveri' in Venetian papers are taken to be the mills of Lerna at Myloi; this is probable but not proven.
- Where
- The water mills
- Threads
- Water and mills, Industry and trade
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- National Library of Greece (ΕΒΕ), Manuscripts, Archivio Nani 3926, f. 726r (14-06-1704) and 3927, ff. 432v, 438v
- Α. Πανοπούλου, «Το territorio του Ναυπλίου: η διαχείριση των αγροτικών και των φυσικών πόρων (τέλη 17ου – αρχές 18ου αι.)», Ναυπλιακά Ανάλεκτα IX (2017), pp. 362–363
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