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Prices set for the state land around Myloi
19 October 1878 (7 October 1878 old style) Proven
Much of the land around Myloi was still 'national land', former Ottoman property that had passed to the Greek state. Under the law for distributing it to farmers, the cabinet set its price per stremma at Myloi: 60 to 100 drachmas for irrigated land, 15 to 60 for dry land and 80 to 120 for planted land.
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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
- ΦΕΚ 20, 14-3-1879, p. 109 (decision of the Council of Ministers of 7-10-1878), Hellenic Parliament Library, digital newspaper collection
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