Second Ottoman period · Water and mills · Travellers · Running the village
Leake: the 'Afendiki Myli' are government mills of Nafplio
1806 Proven
The British officer and topographer William Martin Leake visited the mills in 1806. He called them the Afendiki Myli, 'mills of Anapli [Nafplio], to which town they belong', and explained the Greek term as 'government mills'. He saw two groups: one driven by the springs at the foot of Pontinos, the other by the water of the Amymone, close to the sea.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
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- W. M. Leake, Travels in the Morea II, London 1830, pp. 470–473 Open (opens in a new tab)
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