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A town hall in Myloi
4 November 1840 (23 October 1840 old style) Proven
A notice in the Athens paper Athina announces an auction "in Myloi of the municipality of Temenion, in front of the town hall". A year later a court paper mentions "the café in Myloi of the municipality of Temenion". So Myloi had a town hall and a café around 1840.
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- Myloi (the village)
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- Running the village, Village life
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- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Αθηνά, αρ. 761, 23-10-1840, σ. 4 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Εφημερίς Νομική, 31-03-1841 Open (opens in a new tab)
Also in this period
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19 June 1834
Myloi becomes seat of the municipality of Temenion
When King Otto's government divided Greece into municipalities, Myloi became the seat of the municipality of Temenion (Δήμος Τημενίου), named after the ancient harbour town nearby.
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30 December 1840
The municipality of Temenion disappears
According to the official register of administrative changes, Temenion was merged into the municipality of Argos in December 1840. Yet newspapers still speak of "the municipality of Temenion" in 1841 and 1845. By 1864 at…
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1843
Myloi chooses an elector
For the elections to the National Assembly after the revolution of 3 September 1843, each village chose electors. For Myloi this was Panagis Spanos, the earliest villager of Myloi we know by name in a public role.
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1843
A state salt depot at Myloi
Salt was a state monopoly, and Myloi had a state salt depot (alatapothiki) from at least 1843. Its keepers were civil servants, and appointments and dismissals appear in the newspapers until at least 1877.