The postwar village · Village life · Running the village
Census 1971: Kougeika appears
14 March 1971 Proven
In 1971 the community of Myloi has 675 inhabitants: 466 in Myloi, 171 in Kalamaki and 38 in Kougeika, which is recognised as a settlement in this census. Myloi itself shrank a little, as many Greek villages did in these years.
- Where
- Myloi (the village), Kalamaki, Kougeika
- Threads
- Village life, Running the village
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- ΕΣΥΕ/ELSTAT, Πληθυσμός της Ελλάδος, απογραφή 14-03-1971, GRESYE_02_0101_00059, σ. 31 Open (opens in a new tab)
- ΕΕΤΑΑ, Διοικητικές μεταβολές, «Καλαμάκιον (Αργολίδος)», id 23165
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…