Begoulaki

Begoulaki (Greek: Μπεγουλάκι) is a neighbourhood in the city of Patras. The origin of the name came from Bel Ulak, a Turkish milker who lived in the area during the Ottoman period. Today, the used of the naem is Myloi (Μύλοι), others kept the toponym Begoulaki. Myloi was an area and before the Ottoman rule, the Byzantine chronographer G Frantzia brought the area named Mylous and made a military base by Constantine Palaeologus, where Patras was later besieged by the despot of Mystras. In the siege and married in Begoulaki, the first wife. Later shortly after the Greek Revolution, the area had a lot of mills in which it receives its name. The Roufos family lived in the area.

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