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kalamata

n. kalamata olive

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Kalamata

Kalamata ( Kalamáta) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. The capital and chief port of the Messenia regional unit, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf.

The 2011 census recorded 69,849 inhabitants for the wider Kalamata Municipality, of which 62,409 in the municipal unit of Kalamata proper. Kalamata is renowned as the land of the Kalamatianos dance and Kalamata olives.

Kalamata (disambiguation)

Kalamata, city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece

Kalamata may also refer to:

  • Kalamata olive, cultivar of olive
  • Kalamata International Airport, KLX, airport of Kalamata
  • Kalamata F.C., professional football club
  • Kalamata Municipal Stadium, sports arena in Kalamata
  • Fort Kalamata, fort on the island of Ternate in Maluku Islands, Indonesia

Usage examples of "kalamata".

He passed the stairway to the pilothouse and squeezed past the extra cargo, crates of Kalamata olives and olive oil, sea sponges from Kos.

As it was market-day, we met hundreds of the country people going to Kalamata with laden asses.

Frances had waited for twenty minutes while Renee Platt ran out to the Quickmart to pick up kalamata olives.

Camem-bert, chased it with some wine and then popped a kalamata olive into her mouth, the deep briny taste spreading over her tongue.

Merten, the one in charge of Salonika, sank fifty cases of stolen Jewish gold off Kalamata, thinking he would retrieve it after the war.