Kalamata (Greece)

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Name (Hebrew)
קלמטה (יוון)
Name (Latin)
Kalamata (Greece)
Other forms of name
Kalamatas (Greece)
Kalmata (Greece)
Kalamai (Greece)
nnaa Kalámai, Greece
Kalamae (Greece)
Kalamato (Greece)
Coordinates
22.11111111 22.11111111 37.03777778 37.03777778 (gooearth )
E0220651 E0220651 N0370220 N0370220 (geonames )
Associated country
Greece
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 132588929
Wikidata: Q167895
Library of congress: n 85137326
Sources of Information
  • GEOnet, July 29, 2016:(Καλαμάτα = Kalamáta [approved] -- seat of second-order administrative division 37°02ʹ08ʺN 022°06ʹ47ʺE; variants: Kalamatas, Kalmata; belongs to Peloponnēsos Region)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 37°02ʹ20ʺN 022°06ʹ51ʺE)
  • NIS Greece gaz., 1960(Kalámai, PPL, 37°02ʹN 22°07ʹE; variants: Kalamae, Kalamáta, Kalamato)
  • Peloponnisos, Greece, map, 1981?:map recto (Kalamata)
  • Wikipedia, July 29, 2016:(Kalamata; largest municipal unit of Kalamata Municipality; latter formed in 2011; belongs to Peloponnēsos Region)
  • Lappas, F. Peloponnisos, Greece, map, 1981?:map recto (Kalamata)
  • LC data base, 8-23-86(hdg.: Kalámai, Greece)
  • NIS Greece gaz., 1960(Kalámai, PPL, 37p0s02ʹN 22p0s07ʹE; variants: Kalamae, Kalamáta, Kalamato)

Wikipedia description:

Kalamata (Greek: Καλαμάτα [kalaˈmata]) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece after Patras, and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. As the capital and chief port of the Messenia regional unit, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf. The 2021 census recorded 72,906 inhabitants for the wider Kalamata Municipality, of which 66,135 resided in the municipal unit of Kalamata, and 58,816 in the city proper. Kalamata is renowned as the land of the Kalamatianos dance, Kalamata olives and Kalamata olive oil.

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