* Kalamata, a large, black olive with a smooth and meatlike taste, is named after the city of Kalamata, Greece, and is used as a table olive.

Archaia Messene is located north of Kalamata and east of Pylos.

When the Corinth – Tripoli – Kalamata motorway is complete, E65 will run through it and not through GR-7 any more.

Megalopoli is 24 km southwest of Tripoli, 41 km north of Kalamata, 45 km northwest of Sparti and 68 km southeast of Pyrgos.

Today a narrow and winding road extends down the west coast from Kalamata to Areopoli, then south to Akrotainaro ( the pointy cape which is the most southward soil of continental Greece and continental Europe ) before it turns north until Gytheio.

It is located approximately 65 km south of Pyrgos, 67 km west of Kalamata via the highway and approximately 16 km south of the Neda River.

Taygetus is crossed by Greek National Road 82, which links Kalamata to Sparti and separates Northern Taygetus from the Central Range.

Kalamata ( Kalamáta, formerly Καλάμαι Kalámai ) is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece.

The Messenian Gulf where Kalamata is located has various long beaches.

The Taygetus mountain range is located about E of Kalamata and GR-82 Kalamata – Sparta highway runs through the ranges.

The TEI of Kalamata is also located in the city.

The municipal unit of Kalamata is subdivided into the following communities ( population according to the 2001 census and villages within the district in brackets ):

However, Messene, located some north-west of Kalamata and about 15 to from modern Messini, is an important ancient site.

It is not surprising that the second-oldest Chamber of Commerce in the Mediterranean, after that of Marseille, exists in Kalamata.

Greek salad is a summer salad dish made with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, green bell peppers, onion, sliced or cubed feta cheese, and olives ( usually Kalamata olives, other types of olives may be used as well ), typically seasoned with salt and dried oregano, and dressed with olive oil.

It is located south of Pyrgos, Kyparissia and 15 km south of Filiatra, north of Pylos and Methoni and west of Kalamata ( 68 km ) and Messene.

It is located 11 km northwest of Gargalianoi, 13 km southwest of Kyparissia, 29 km northwest of Pylos and 49 km west of Kalamata.

Zacharo is 18 km south of Olympia, 28 km southeast of Pyrgos, 65 km northwest of Kalamata and 65 km west of Tripoli.

The town is crossed by the Greek National Road 9 / E55, that links Patras with Kalamata.

The Greek campaign ended in a quick and complete German victory with the fall of Kalamata in the Peloponnese ; by the end of that month some 50000 British and Commonwealth troops had been evacuated, and a further 7000 were taken into captivity.

Amyclae is in the Eurotas plain, by the Eurotas river ; it lies east of the Taygetus mountains, south of Tripoli, southwest of Sparta, north of Gytheio, and east of Kalamata.

Kalamata olives enjoy PDO status.

Simple Greek meze: cheese and olives ( feta | feta cheese drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with oregano, served with Kalamata ( olive )# Cultivars | kalamata olives and bread )

Such instances include an annual international athletics meeting in Kalamata called Papaflessia and a municipality in the Peloponnese called Papaflessas.

The A7 toll motorway for Tripoli and Kalamata, ( and Sparta via A71 toll ), branches off the A8 / European route E94 toll motorway from Athens at Corinth.

* 1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.

* Koroneiki originated from the southern Peloponese, around Kalamata and Mani in Greece.

* September 13 – A magnitude 6. 0 earthquake rocks the city of Kalamata in southern Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying one-fifth of the city.

The highway runs west to east and links Pylos with Kalamata and Sparta.

* link = European route E55-: Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Nykøbing Falster – Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Ústí nad Labem – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Mestre – Ravenna – Cesena – Rimini – Fano – Ancona – Pescara – Canosa di Puglia – Bari – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Preveza – Rhion – Patras – Pyrgos – Kalamata ( See also E 4 below.

Hoare chronicled his exploits in his book the Road to Kalamata.

It tremored Aegina and Nafplion and went as far as Kalamata.

The capital and the biggest city of Messenia in either case has been the city of Kalamata.

Meanwhile, he was appointed as Public Prosecutor in the Tribunal of Kalamata, but he soon quit this position in order to become a politician.

The port of Diakofti currently serves scheduled routes to / from Gythion, Kalamata, Antikythera, Piraeus, Crete & Neapolis-Vatika.

These were: the barony of Akova ( Matagrifon ) located in Arcadia with 24 fiefs, of Skorta ( in Karytaina ) with 22 fiefs, of Nikli and Geraki with 6 fiefs, of Kalavryta with 12 fiefs, of Vostitza with 8 fiefs, of Veligosti, Gritsena, Passava ( in Laconia ) and Chalandritsa with 4 fiefs, while the barony of Kalamata was retained as a personal fief by the Villehardouins.

Andravida has a disused railway station on the line from Patras to Kalamata, which opened in the 1860s.

Motorway 7 ( A7 ), known as the Moreas Motorway or Eastern Peloponnese motorway starts from Corinth, at the interchange with the A8 ( Olympia Odos ) and continues to Kalamata, passing through Tripoli.

For example, GR-7 carries the E65 from Tripoli to Kalamata.

The A7 motorway connects Megalopoli with Kalamata and Tripoli, replacing the Greek National Road 7.

The railway from Corinth to Kalamata passes 4 km south of the town.

This will be a southern extension of the Ionia Odos, numbered A5, which will connect the Albanian border near Ioannina with the A7 north of Kalamata.