Kalamata

Kalamata is the second one most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece and the most important town of the homonymous administrative area. The capital and chief port of the Messenia local unit, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf. The 2011 census recorded 69,849 inhabitants for the broader Kalamata Municipality, of which 62,409 inside the municipal unit of Kalamata right.

Kalamata is renowned as the land of the Kalamatianos dance and Kalamata olives. The records of Kalamata starts with Homer, who mentions Firai, an ancient town constructed greater or less where the Kalamata Castle stands these days. It turned into believed that in historic times the area that the city presently occupies become covered by the sea, but the proto-Greek and archaic period stays Poseidon temple that have been unearthed at Akovitika location show the other.

Kalamata's Chamber of Commerce is the second one-oldest in the Mediterranean after Marseille. Kalamata is well-known for its black Kalamata olives. Karelia Tobacco Company has been in operation in Kalamata considering the fact that 1888. Pharai changed into alternatively unimportant in antiquity, and the site endured in obscurity till middle Byzantine times.