Revolution and liberation · Village life
1829: 61 families, 181 people
1829 Proven
The French scientific expedition to the Morea counted "Myli" in the province of Argos at 61 families and 181 people. The expedition noted that the war had sharply reduced the population of the area, but that it was now growing fast.
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- Myloi (the village)
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- Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Expédition scientifique de Morée, Section des sciences physiques, t. II/1: Géographie, Paris 1834, «Tableau statistique de la Morée actuelle», p. 65 (éparchie d'Argos) Open (opens in a new tab)
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24 June 1825
Women and children taken aboard a French ship
On the evening before the battle, Admiral de Rigny, at anchor in the roadstead of the mills, took the women and children of the place on board his ship. After the fighting he sent rum to the Greek defenders.
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3 October 1827
Medicine against fever requested at Myloi
Captain Konstantis Veris, who held Myloi with his soldiers, asked Ioannis Kolettis to send medicine against 'the fever'. The marshes of Lerna made malaria a constant danger for anyone stationed at the mills.
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1831
Work begins on the road from Tripoli to Myloi
Under Kapodistrias work began on a road from Tripoli over the mountains down to Myloi, the nearest landing place for Arcadia. It took almost thirty years to finish.
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30 May 1831
American sailors find 'a little collection of huts'
Officers of the American frigate USS Constellation visited Lerna. Enoch Wines wrote that the water from the spring was led away in a canal and turned a few mills, which gave the name Mylos to a little group of huts built…