The postwar village · Village life · The Revolution of 1821
Headmistress Maria Pagkalou and the battle monument
1962 Proven
In 1962 the Aspis of Argos praises the "progressive headmistress of the primary school of Myloi", Maria Pagkalou, for what she achieved within a few months together with the community committee. A later article says the grave monument for those who fell in the Battle of Myloi was built on her initiative.
Read the full story: Myloi, 200 years ago: the battle broke out
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- Myloi (the village)
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- Village life, The Revolution of 1821
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- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Άσπις του Άργους, 18-03-1962 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Άσπις του Άργους, 17-06-1962, «ΕΙΣ ΜΥΛΟΥΣ» Open (opens in a new tab)
- Φειδών, 17-01-1971 (Λαμπρόπουλος, για τη Μάχη των Μύλων) Open (opens in a new tab)
Also in this period
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1950–1969
Souvlaki passed up to the train windows
Because so many trains stopped at the junction of Myloi, the village became known for souvlaki. Sellers walked along the carriages with trays of skewers and passed them up to passengers at the open windows; a magazine…
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1950s
A rural doctor for three years
Evangelos Koligliatis, born in Ira near Argos in 1922, served three years as rural doctor in Myloi in the 1950s, after two years in Filiates (Thesprotia). He later became a physician at the hospital of Argos.
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1950s
A birth among the sheepfolds above Kalamaki
In an interview recorded in 1988, the old midwife of Kiveri remembered a birth "above Kalamaki, up at the sheepfolds". Afterwards the husband had to walk to the road and on to Myloi to call the doctor: there were…
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7 April 1951
Census 1951: Kalamaki suddenly has 206 people
After the war and the civil war the community of Myloi has 639 inhabitants: 433 in Myloi and 206 in Kalamaki, four times as many as in 1940. The cause is not known; possibly families settled there temporarily, or the…