Begoulaki Μπεγουλάκι
Prefecture Prefectures of Greece During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit... :	Achaia
Province Provinces of Greece The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially finance services and education, as well as for electoral purposes... :	Patras
City:	Patras Patras Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
Area/distance code:	11-0030-2610
Name of inhabitants:	-
Website:	www.cityofpatras.gr

Begoulaki (Greek

Greek language

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: Μπεγουλάκι) is a neighbourhood in the city of Patras

Patras

Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

. The name is originally derived from Bel Ulak, a Turkish

Turkey

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 miller who lived in the area during the Ottoman period

Ottoman Empire

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. Today, the usual form of the name is "Myloi" (Μύλοι) even though other people kept the toponym Begoulaki. The current neighborhood was named "Myloi" before the Ottoman era, but the Byzantine

Byzantine Empire

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 chronographer G. Frantzis referred to it as "Mylous". The area was made into a military base by Constantine XI Paleologus during his siege of Patras

Patras

Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

 as the despot of Mystra

Mystra

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. It was also the place where Constantine married his first wife. Shortly after the Greek Revolution

Greek War of Independence

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, the area had a lot of mill

Gristmill

The terms gristmill or grist mill can refer either to a building in which grain is ground into flour, or to the grinding mechanism itself.- Early history :...

s to which it received its name. The Roufos family lived in the area, as well as members from the Kollas clan.