Places
Skafidaki
8 events
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1864
The first known priest and teacher of Myloi
A report of 1864 mentions a priest who had served the villages of Myloi and Skafidaki until the feast of Saint George that year, and who had earlier been the teacher of the same villages. So Myloi already had some form…
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15 December 1927
The parish of Agios Dimitrios sells its pastures
The parish committee of the church of Agios Dimitrios in Myloi announces the public sale of two pieces of church pasture near Skafidaki, about 50 and 8 stremmata. The notice is signed by Petros Kodelas, D. Georgopoulos…
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13 December 1940
A soldier from Skafidaki falls on the Albanian front
The Greek Army's roll of the dead of 1940–45 records Sokratis Papanastasopoulos, born in Skafidaki in 1916, killed at Golemi on the Albanian front on 13 December 1940.
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22 November 1956
Vervena still winters "as far as Myloi"
In 1956 a letter "from wintry Vervena" says that all its people have again settled in their winter quarters, "from Karakovouni, Meligou and Astros as far as Myloi of Argos and Skafidaki". The writer complains that the…
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1960
The first pumping station of Lerna is built
In 1960 the "Α' Αντλιοστάσιο Λέρνης" was built beside the main spring, on the Argos–Tripoli road. Its four pumps lift 5,000 m³ an hour, about as much as the spring gives, to irrigate 11,500 stremmata in Myloi, Skafidaki,…
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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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2009
Some 570 boreholes around the springs
In 2009 the geologist P. Ntontos wrote that the shared irrigation networks of Kefalari and Myloi had been neglected and were largely out of use. In the Myloi–Skafidaki–Kefalari area almost everything was now watered from…
People
- Panagiotis Lermas Priest of Agios Dimitrios, Myloi
- Sokratis Papanastasopoulos Greek soldier, born in Skafidaki
- Loukas Kouvaras Engineer, president of the community of Myloi, first mayor of Lerna
Pictures
The 1960 pumping station of Lerna on the Argos–Tripoli road in Myloi, with its sign of the Kefalari–Argos irrigation board and the mural of Heracles and the Hydra. Visit Myloi
