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Nafplio
27 events
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1388
Argos and Nauplia are sold to Venice
Marie d'Enghien, heiress of the Brienne family's lands in the Argolid, sold her lordship of Argos and Nauplia, including the castle of Kiveri, to the Republic of Venice.
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1394
Venice finally takes over the castles
The handover after the sale of 1388 was anything but smooth. The Despot of Mystras seized the castles of the Argolid first, and only in 1394 did Venice actually gain control of the area, the castle on Pontinos included.
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1688–1715
A monopoly on the ferry, coffee and eels
Under Venice, transport between Nafplio and the mills was a state concession. The leaseholder had the sole right to carry people and goods by sea between Nafplio and the mills of Kiveri, to bring grain to the mills and…
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1700
Grain by boat, flour back to Nafplio
In his introduction to the Venetian cadastre of Argos, the engineer Francesco Vandeyk describes a castle on a high hill near the sea, called Anasiri, or by many 'Old Argos' or 'Helen's castle'. Below it, he writes, water…
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1710
The mills grind too little for Nafplio
In 1710 the Venetian commander-in-chief Marco Loredan complained that the mills of Kiveri ground only 15 stara of grain a day, about 1,245 kilos. That was not enough for the ship's biscuit (paximadi) of the city and the…
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1 August 1715
Five Venetian officers are executed at the camp
On 1 August 1715, in the camp at Tziveri, Osman Aga received the rank of pasha of two horsetails, the governorship of Erzurum and the command of Nafplio. The same day five Venetian officers of the Nafplio garrison were…
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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
Leake: the 'Afendiki Myli' are government mills of Nafplio
The British officer and topographer William Martin Leake visited the mills in 1806. He called them the Afendiki Myli, 'mills of Anapli [Nafplio], to which town they belong', and explained the Greek term as 'government…
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1816
'The mills of Nauplia', two hours from Nafplio and from Argos
In his critical notes on Chateaubriand's travels, printed in Padua in 1816, the Argos physician Avramiotti wrote that 'everyone knows' Lerna is the marsh a hundred paces from 'the mills of Nauplia', at the foot of Mount…
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1827
Generals agree to cut the garrison at the mills
Because promised food supplies did not arrive, the generals Stratos, Grivas and Veris decided to reduce the number of soldiers 'at the Mills and in Nafplio'. In the same months a man was held at Myloi by soldiers because…
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14 October 1827
'No water for the mills': a captain's threat
In the civil strife around Nafplio in 1827, the mills of Myloi ground the grain for the fortress. Konstantis Veris wrote to Kolettis that he was asked to allow 10,000 oka of grain to be milled for the fortress, but that…
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17 February 1862
Telegrams from Myloi about the revolt in Nafplio
When the garrison of Nafplio rose against King Otto in February 1862, some of the first news reached Athens through messages sent from Myloi by the keeper of the state salt depot. They were printed in the press dated…
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16 December 1865
No customs house at Myloi
Goods landed at Myloi for Tripoli still had to be cleared at the customs house in Nafplio, 'there being no customs house at Myloi'. A Tripoli newspaper complained about the detour this caused for the trade of Arcadia.
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10 October 1877
The rowing ferry from Nafplio capsizes
Before the railway, people crossed between Nafplio and Myloi in rowing boats, a trip of about an hour. In the autumn of 1877 one of these boats from Nafplio capsized and a carter from Argos drowned.
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11 August 1886
The first timetable: local trains Nafplio–Argos–Myloi
The new timetable linked Myloi to the Corinth–Argos trains by a special train, plus four local trains between Nafplio, Argos and Myloi. Return tickets from Piraeus or Athens to Myloi were valid for four days, and freight…
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1887
Myloi of Nafplio or Myloi of Argos?
In 1887 the Argos newspaper discovered that the railway company called the station 'Μύλος Ναυπλίου' in its books, Myloi of Nafplio. Argos protested: the village was 'Μύλοι Άργους'. The old rivalry between Argos and…
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February 1888
A ferry boat capsizes on the way to Myloi
Before the road was good, many travellers crossed the bay by rowing or sailing boat between Nafplio and the railway at Myloi. In February 1888 one of these boats capsized in a strong wind: one of the two boatmen drowned,…
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May 1889
A German traveller sails from Myloi to Nauplia
In May 1889 Georg Behrmann found someone on the beach at Myloi who understood German and helped him hire a sailing boat, steered by 'two cheerful, talkative Myliots', to Nauplia. He noted that he could also have taken…
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6 July 1891
King George I lands at Myloi to open the line to Tripoli
At 6 in the morning the royal yacht Sfaktiria sailed into Myloi with King George I, the princes Nikolaos and Andreas and Prime Minister Deligiannis, greeted by cannon fire as she passed Nafplio. At 8 the king stepped…
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17 November 1891
Nafplio wants the line extended from Myloi to its own pier
The town council of Nafplio asked for the Myloi–Kalamata line to be extended 'from Myloi to the pier in front of the customs house of Nafplio'. It was an early sign of the rivalry between the two harbours.
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1894
Baedeker: Myli, landing place for boats from Nauplia
The 1894 Baedeker guide told travellers that Myli 'is the landing-place for boats from Nauplia', with three or four trains a day to Myli and one or two on to Tripolitza.
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16 December 1899
A new deal: money for Nafplio instead of a longer pier at Myloi
Prime Minister Theotokis and Pavlos Skouzes, chairman of the ΣΠΑΠ, signed a contract that replaced the pier extension at Myloi. The company would pay 100,000 drachmas to Nafplio's harbour fund and lay track along the…
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10 April 1900
'Every attempt to build a pier at Myloi came to nothing'
N. Triantafyllakos, MP for Tripoli, protested that Myloi lay at the start of the line and a good pier there would make goods for Tripoli cheaper. Theotokis answered: 'Every attempt to build a pier at Myloi came to…
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1941–1943
Myloi in the Italian zone of occupation
From the summer of 1941 until September 1943 Myloi lay in the Italian zone of occupation, which covered most of the Peloponnese; Italian troops of the 'Siena' division held Argos and Nafplio from May to September 1941.…
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1960s
Nafplio drinks water from Myloi
In the early 1960s Nafplio began to take its drinking water from the Amymone spring at Myloi, through an underground pipeline about 13 km long. Two pumping stations together deliver some 600 m³ an hour.
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1988
Nafplio also draws on the Lerna spring
From 1988 the water company of Nafplio took drinking water not only from the Amymone spring but also from the main spring of Lerna at Myloi.
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24 December 1991
Christmas Eve in Epidaurus, Lygourio and Nafplio
On 24 December Mitterrand visited the theatre of Epidaurus and lunched at the taverna Leonidas in Lygourio, where he liked the local rozakia best and posed for a photo with the family. In the afternoon he walked through…
People
- Marie d'Enghien Lady of Argos and Nauplia
- Francesco Vandeyk Venetian public engineer and mapmaker
- Marco Loredan Venetian commander-in-chief (provveditore generale) of the Morea
- Benjamin Brue Interpreter of the King of France at the Ottoman court, eyewitness of 1715
- William Martin Leake British officer, topographer and traveller
- G. D. Avramiotti Physician in Argos and critic of Chateaubriand
- Konstantis Veris Captain from Roumeli in the Revolution
- Ioannis Kolettis Politician, member of the Executive and later prime minister
- Otto, King of Greece First king of modern Greece (1833–1862)
- George I of Greece King of the Hellenes (1863–1913)
- Theodoros Deligiannis Prime Minister of Greece
- Kalmouchos Mayor of Argos (1891)
- Ernest Rolin Belgian contractor of the Myloi–Kalamata railway
- Georgios Theotokis Prime Minister of Greece
- Pavlos G. Skouzes Chairman of the ΣΠΑΠ (1899)
- François Mitterrand President of France, spent Christmas 1991 in Myloi
Pictures
François Mitterrand with taverna owner Leonidas Liakopoulos at taverna Leonidas, Lygourio (black and white). Liakopoulos family archive
