Venetian period · Harbour and pier · Water and mills
The whole Venetian fleet takes water at the Mills
c. 1704 Proven
A Venetian description of the Kingdom of the Morea from around 1704, attributed to G. E. Alberghetti, notes that in the southernmost part of the plain of Argos lie 'the Mills, where the whole navy takes on water'. The same manuscript also lists the Molini as a village.
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- Harbour and pier, Water and mills
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Breve descrittione del Regno di Morea, manuscript, Biblioteca Querini Stampalia, Venice (c. 1704), ed. in Κ. Ντόκος, «Breve descrittione del Regno di Morea», Εώα και Εσπέρια 1 (1993), p. 121
- Κ. Ντόκος, «Κιβέρι – Μύλοι – Σκαφιδάκι», Αργειακή Γη 2 (2004), σ. 118–130, n. 39 Open (opens in a new tab)
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