Places
Junction with the Tripoli road
19 events
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4 August 1715
The army leaves over the pass towards Achladokampos
On 4 August 1715 the Grand Vizier left the camp at Tziveri for Modon (Methoni). Brue describes an hour through fairly flat land and then three hours over a narrow, difficult pass through rocky mountains: the road from…
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1775–1799
'Les Moulins', a junction on the road to Tripolitsa
In the late 18th century 'les Moulins' was a junction of roads in the northeastern Peloponnese. From Tripolitsa a road came down via Achladokampos to the Mills and went on to Argos and Nafplio, while another road ran…
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1806
A khan below the Amymone spring
'Just below the fountain Amymone is a khan,' Leake noted, an inn for travellers; beyond it a road to Achladokampos branched off to the right, passing another, ruined khan. Further south he passed Kiveri, a hamlet of six…
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19 July 1809
Tithe wheat goes from Myloi to Tripolitsa
A tax account dated 7 July 1809 (old style) records 'the wheat that was taken from Myloi to Tripolitsa' in the name of Nikolos Meletis, at 30 para a measure. It was the tithe wheat of the district of Argos, from 52…
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1831
Work begins on the road from Tripoli to Myloi
Under Kapodistrias work began on a road from Tripoli over the mountains down to Myloi, the nearest landing place for Arcadia. It took almost thirty years to finish.
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1857
Carts on the road from Myloi to Tripoli
By the mid-1850s the road from Tripoli to Myloi could be used by carts. A Tripoli newspaper reported in 1858 that about ten freight carts a day travelled it, carrying goods between the landing place at Myloi and Arcadia.
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12 November 1859
The road from Tripoli to Myloi is finished
A Tripoli newspaper reported that the road from Tripoli to Myloi, begun in 1831, had been completed in 1859. It made Myloi the port of Arcadia until the railway came.
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November 1862
A stagecoach between Tripoli and Myloi
From November 1862 a diligence was announced to run three times a week between Tripoli and Myloi.
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1 April 1882
A Danish professor sees the spring by the chapel of Saint John
Travelling by carriage, Johan Louis Ussing wrote that the largest spring came out 'through seven openings by a small chapel of Saint John'. He also noted that at Myli the new carriage road turned west towards the…
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March 1891 – May 1891
'The railway only went as far as Myli'
A Bavarian teacher who toured Greece in the spring of 1891 wrote that 'the railway then only went as far as Myli'. From there his group continued in an open carriage along the excellent road towards Tripoli, resting at…
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24 April 1941
Advanced headquarters of W Force moves to Myloi
On 24 April 1941, with the evacuation of Greece under way, the Advanced Battle Headquarters of W Force, the British and Commonwealth army in Greece, settled in at Myloi. The village lay on the road from the plain of…
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25 April 1941
The Australian column leaves Myloi at 8 p.m.
Orders came in the afternoon of 25 April 1941. At 20:00 the Allen Group set off from Myloi over the mountain road to Tripoli and on to Kalamata, where the troops were to be taken off by the Navy. Australian military…
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26 April 1941
A New Zealand dressing station at the foot of the Tripoli pass
At the request of the 6th New Zealand Brigade, A Company of the 4th Field Ambulance set up a dressing station 'at the foot of the pass leading over the ranges to Tripolis' on 26 April 1941. The rest of the unit crossed…
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26 April 1941
Wilson's headquarters in an olive grove at the Tripoli road
On 26 April 1941 the headquarters of W Force was hidden in an olive grove at Myloi, where the trees gave cover from the German dive bombers. Wilson himself wrote that it lay 'close to where the road to Tripolis leaves…
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27 April 1941
Shortly after midnight the New Zealand rearguard passes Myloi
Shortly after midnight on 27 April 1941 the rear party of the New Zealand Division, the 6th Brigade, passed Myloi going south towards Tripoli. After that there was nothing between the flying boat in the bay and the…
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14 December 1948
Operation 'Peristera': Myloi as a boundary point in the Peloponnese
In the army's plan for operation 'Peristera' against the Democratic Army in the Peloponnese (14 December 1948), the IX Division was to secure road and rail traffic in its zone and the works on the road…
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1960–2010
Grill houses for travellers at the junction
On the old national road, where cars and the KTEL buses stopped at the junction before the long climb towards Tripoli, a row of grill houses fed drivers and passengers. In 1963 a newspaper already described the summer…
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2010
The last passenger trains pass Myloi
Although the line had just been renovated, regular services on the Peloponnese metre-gauge network were suspended in 2010, and no more trains stopped at Myloi. The souvlaki sellers left the platform, but the grill houses…
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2017
To Mikraki, a family taverna on the old road
The family taverna To Mikraki stands on the old Argos–Tripoli road near the junction, where grill houses have long served travellers. The oldest online traces date from 2017; its opening year is not known. It serves…
People
- Benjamin Brue Interpreter of the King of France at the Ottoman court, eyewitness of 1715
- Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha Ottoman grand vizier (1713–1716), conqueror of the Morea in 1715
- William Martin Leake British officer, topographer and traveller
- Johan Louis Ussing Danish classical scholar
- Arthur Samuel Allen Australian brigadier, commander of the Allen Group (1941)
- Henry Maitland Wilson British general, commander of W Force in Greece (1941)
- Bernard Freyberg Commander of the New Zealand Division (1941)
Pictures
Greece, 1941, in the field: Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Blamey, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and Major General Bernard Freyberg (left to right). Australian War Memorial 128425 · public domain
Souvlaki skewers with pita, fries and tzatziki: the dish Myloi is known for. Visit Myloi
Myloi railway station today: the ochre station building with red-framed windows and the sign ΜΥΛΟΙ among palms and flowering oleanders, with an old points lever in the foreground. Visit Myloi
To Mikraki at dusk, with its round sign and tables outside. Gerd Pawellek (Google Maps)
