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Winter quarters for the shepherds of Vervena

14 November 1929 Proven

Every autumn the people of Vervena, a mountain village in Kynouria at about 1,200 metres, left home for warmer winter villages with their flocks. A correspondent from Vervena lists them in 1929: among them Kiveri, Myloi, Argos and Kalamaki, ten to fourteen hours' walk away.

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Myloi (the village), Kalamaki, Kiveri
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Village life
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Proven confirmed by primary sources

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