Places
Kiveri
16 events
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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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25 April 1824
Colonel Stanhope comes ashore at the mills
The British philhellene Colonel Leicester Stanhope landed at the mills and went on to Kiveri, where he addressed the Greek senate.
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25 June 1825
A French eyewitness describes the battle lines
According to Jourdain, the French general Roche met Ypsilantis and Mavromichalis in the mills that morning. He counted 227 Greeks: 100 to the right of the mills, 100 on the slope to the left and the rest behind the…
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7 July 1825
Horsemen sent to burn Kiveri are driven off
Twelve days after the battle the enemy sent sixty horsemen to set fire to Kiveri. Greeks who came out from the mills drove them away.
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13 September 1912
Myloi becomes part of the community of Kiveri
With the reform that replaced the old municipalities by village communities, Myloi was separated from Argos and placed in the new community of Kiveri.
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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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26 September 1939
The dictatorship replaces the village council
Under the Metaxas regime a royal decree dissolved the councils of Skotini, Kiveri and Myloi because they were "hindering normal operation". For Myloi an appointed committee took over: Nikolaos Chr. Giannakopoulos as…
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1941–1943
The Italian garrison fortifies the coast: anti-tank ditch and barbed wire
Myloi had its own Italian garrison. The Italians took over the fortification of the village against an Allied landing: they dug an anti-tank ditch, laid barbed wire and set up an anti-aircraft unit and gun batteries…
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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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October 1994
Loukas Kouvaras wins the village election
Back from an international career, Loukas Kouvaras stood in the local elections of October 1994 with his own independent list and won. He was president of the community of Myloi from 1995 to 1998 and also chaired the…
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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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October 1998
Loukas Kouvaras, first mayor of Lerna
Kouvaras was elected first mayor of the new municipality of Lerna in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He built the town hall in Myloi, laid out the beaches of Myloi and Kiveri and brought water and roads to the neighbouring…
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2015–2016
Enosi Lernas are champions of the Argolid
In the 2015–16 season the blue-and-black football club Enosi Lernas, the club of the Myloi area, won the first division of the Argolid football association (Α΄ ΕΠΣ Αργολίδας). An earlier club of the village was called…
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5 September 2017
Myloi says no to moving its pupils to Kiveri
When the primary school of Myloi was to be closed and the children sent to Kiveri, the residents decided that the pupils would not go. The statement was signed by community president Panagiotis Koromichis and the chair…
People
- William Martin Leake British officer, topographer and traveller
- Leicester Stanhope British colonel and philhellene
- J.-P.-P. Jourdain French officer in Greek service and author
- Dimitrios Ypsilantis Commander in the Greek Revolution
- Konstantinos Mavromichalis Maniot commander in the Greek Revolution
- Nikolaos Chr. Giannakopoulos President of the community of Myloi
- Loukas Kouvaras Engineer, president of the community of Myloi, first mayor of Lerna
- Panagiotis (Akis) Koromichis President of the local community of Myloi