Kalamata is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region.
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16 Facts About Kalamata
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Kalamata is renowned as the land of the Kalamatianos dance and Kalamata olives.
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Municipality Kalamata was formed as part of the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following four former municipalities, each of which subsequently became municipal units:.
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Province of Kalamata was one of the provinces of the Messenia Prefecture.
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Kalamata is first mentioned in the 10th-century Life of St Nikon the Metanoeite, and experienced a period of prosperity in the 11th–12th centuries, as attested by the five surviving churches built in this period, including the Church of the Holy Apostles, as well as the comments of the Arab geographer al-Idrisi, who calls it a "large and populous" town.
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Kalamata remained in Frankish hands until near the end of the Principality of Achaea, coming under the control of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea only in 1428.
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Kalamata was occupied by the Ottomans from 1481 to 1685, like the rest of Greece.
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Kalamata was after forced to return to Crete, but the Venetians returned in the Morean War.
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Kalamata was the first city to be liberated as the Greeks rose in the Greek War of Independence.
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In independent Greece, Kalamata was rebuilt and became one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean sea.
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Kalamata was again in the news on 13 September 1986, when it was hit by an earthquake that measured 6.
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Today, Kalamata has the second largest population and mercantile activity in Peloponnese.
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The region around Kalamata has provided two Ecumenical patriarchs in the past.
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Kalamata has a mediterranean climate with mild, wet winters and dry, hot summers.
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Kalamata is served by a metre gauge railway line of the former Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways, now owned by the Hellenic Railways Organisation .
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Kalamata has four urban bus lines that cross the city and its suburbs.
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