The railway age · Village life · Running the village
The schoolmaster of Myloi is paid by the state
11 January 1886 (30 December 1885 old style) Proven
A new decree on school grants again gave Myloi 10 drachmas a month, now 'for the schoolmaster' (grammatodidaskalos). Together with earlier reports, it shows that the village kept a small school of its own in the years before the railway arrived.
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- Myloi (the village)
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- Village life, Running the village
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- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- ΦΕΚ A 136, 31-12-1885, p. 13 (decree of 30-12-1885), Hellenic Parliament Library, digital newspaper collection
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