The young kingdom · Village life
The first known priest and teacher of Myloi
1864 Proven
A report of 1864 mentions a priest who had served the villages of Myloi and Skafidaki until the feast of Saint George that year, and who had earlier been the teacher of the same villages. So Myloi already had some form of school before 1864.
- Where
- Myloi (the village), Skafidaki
- Threads
- Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Παλιγγενεσία, 30-4-1864 and 5-5-1864, Hellenic Parliament Library, digital newspaper collection
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