Places
Kalamaki
19 events
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1890–1944
Born in Kalamaki, buried in America
Find a Grave lists four people born in "Kalamaki, Argolis" between about 1890 and 1944 who died in New Jersey, California, Ohio and Texas. One of them was naturalised and served in the US Army in 1942–1943. The…
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1902
Zacharia Mila, the first known emigrant, goes to Chicago
Zacharia Mila from Kalamaki leaves for Chicago in 1902, which makes him the earliest emigrant from Myloi and Kalamaki we know of. He works there until 1906 and then returns to his wife Marigo in Kalamaki. We know this…
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24 April 1911
On the Patris to Chicago: Mila and Stavros Kouvalis
Zacharia Mila (38) and fifteen-year-old Stavros Kouvalis sailed from Piraeus on 4 April 1911 on the Patris, the first Greek liner to New York, and arrived twenty days later. Both were going to Angelos Kouvalis, Stavros's…
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December 1927
"Kalamaki of Kiveri"
A notice of December 1927 reports that a man "from Kalamaki of Kiveri" who had just died left 300 drachmas in his will to the Argos association "Danaos". It shows that Kalamaki then still counted as part of Kiveri, not…
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14 November 1929
Winter quarters for the shepherds of Vervena
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,…
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16 October 1940
Census 1940: Myloi 388, Kalamaki 50
Shortly before Greece entered the war, the census counts 438 people in the community of Myloi: 388 in the village and 50 in Kalamaki (29 men and 21 women). Since 1879 the village had almost tripled in size.
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16 October 1940
Kalamaki becomes an official settlement of Myloi
In the census of 16 October 1940 Kalamaki (officially Καλαμάκιον) is listed for the first time as a separate settlement and attached to the community of Myloi. The name itself is older: emigrants of 1911 gave…
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29 April 1949
Myloi in the new prefecture of Argolida
The old prefecture of Argolida and Corinthia was split, and the community of Myloi, with Kalamaki, came under the new prefecture of Argolida.
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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…
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19 March 1961
Census 1961: Myloi 503, Kalamaki 170
The census of 1961 counts 673 people in the community: 503 in Myloi and 170 in Kalamaki. Myloi passes 500 inhabitants for the first time.
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14 March 1971
Census 1971: Kougeika appears
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…
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5 April 1981
Census 1981: Myloi 542
The census of 1981 counts 698 people in the community: 542 in Myloi, 123 in Kalamaki and 33 in Kougeika. The village grows again while Kalamaki slowly empties.
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4 December 1997
Myloi becomes seat of the new municipality of Lerna
Under the Kapodistrias reform the communities of Myloi, Kiveri, Skafidaki, Andritsa and others were merged into the municipality of Lerna (Δήμος Λέρνας), with its seat in Myloi. The new municipality began work in 1999…
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7 June 2010
Lerna is merged into Argos-Mykines
Under the Kallikratis reform the municipality of Lerna was abolished and became a municipal unit of the large municipality of Argos-Mykines. Myloi, with Kalamaki and Kougeika, became a local community (Τοπική Κοινότητα…
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2011
Census 2011: Myloi 593
In 2011 the local community of Myloi had 593 inhabitants in Myloi, 98 in Kalamaki and 28 in Kougeika. Another summary of the same census gives 100 for Kalamaki. In 1991 Kalamaki had 140 and in 2001 about 131.
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24 October 2018
Ice cream made in Myloi
A century after the first ice factory, the ice-cream maker FOODPROM (Provio), run by the brothers Athanasios and Christos Mitsakos, has a modern production unit at Kamini near Kalamaki, in the Myloi district. In 2018–19…
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2021
Census 2021: Kalamaki down to 96
The census of 2021 counts 96 inhabitants in Kalamaki, less than half of the 206 of 1951.
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2026
A new water network for Kalamaki
The municipality of Argos-Mykines decides to replace and extend the water supply network "in the settlement of Kalamaki".
People
- Zacharia Mila Emigrant from Kalamaki to Chicago
- Stavros Kouvalis Emigrant from Kalamaki to Chicago
- Angelos Kouvalis Emigrant in Chicago
Pictures
The passenger list of the Patris, April 1911, lines 25–26: "Mila, Zacharia, 38" and "Kouvalis, Stavros, 15". Below: their families at home, "his wife Marigo" and "his father Johannis", both in "Kalamaki, Myli, Greece", and their destination: "Ill. Chicago". NARA T715, via FamilySearch
The back of the same sheet. Mila had been in the United States before ("yes, 1902–1906, Chicago, Ill.") and was going to "his brother-in-law Angelos Kouvalis, 417 N. Wells, Chicago Ill." For Stavros: "the same, as above". NARA T715, via FamilySearch
