Second Ottoman period · Water and mills · Running the village · Travellers
The gardens of the Kapudan Pasha and the mill dam
1806 Proven
South of the mills Leake saw a stone dam 250 yards long along the beach, with two shorter cross walls, built to hold water for the mills. Next to it lay gardens full of orange and other fruit trees, which 'formerly belonged to the Capitan Pasha, but are now the property of a Bey of Anapli'; they were as neglected as the tower (pyrgos) that stood in the middle of them. So it was the gardens, not the mills, that had belonged to the admiral of the Ottoman fleet.
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- Where
- The water mills, Myloi beach
- Threads
- Water and mills, Running the village, Travellers
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- W. M. Leake, Travels in the Morea II, London 1830, p. 475 Open (opens in a new tab)
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