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Lavrion mines

  • Greek word “lavra”
  • means narrow passage or tunnel describing the characteristics of mining galleries.
  • Silver production was so high, historians wrote:
  • “the silver is flowing like spring water”.
  • Decline of the mines came during the Peloponnesian War, was a 30 year civil war between Athens and Sparta.
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