Venetian period · Water and mills · Industry and trade
The mills grind too little for Nafplio
1710 Proven
In 1710 the Venetian commander-in-chief Marco Loredan complained that the mills of Kiveri ground only 15 stara of grain a day, about 1,245 kilos. That was not enough for the ship's biscuit (paximadi) of the city and the army, so he proposed hand mills in an old warehouse in Nafplio and four new ovens. The mills mainly served the garrison of Nafplio.
- Where
- The water mills, Nafplio
- Threads
- Water and mills, Industry and trade
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- S. A. Davies, The Fiscal System of the Venetian Peloponnese: The Province of Romania 1688–1715, PhD thesis, Birmingham 1996, p. 149
- Α. Πανοπούλου, «Το territorio του Ναυπλίου: η διαχείριση των αγροτικών και των φυσικών πόρων (τέλη 17ου – αρχές 18ου αι.)», Ναυπλιακά Ανάλεκτα IX (2017), p. 363
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