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Kalamata (Greek: Καλαμάτα) 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 .
Tripoli is mainly accessed from Athens and the rest of Greece through the A7 toll motorway, which runs northbound towards Corinth and southbound to Kalamata. An alternative toll-free route is the GR-7 which used to be the main highway to Tripoli before the construction of the motorway.
Map of Greece's motorway network as of 2022. ... Corinth–Tripoli–Kalamata: Corinth, Argos, Tripoli, Kalamata: 149/149 km 93/93 mi Completed: Olympia Odos:
The A7 motorway has been credited with spearheading Tripoli's economic growth. [4] The southern end is also the ring road of Kalamata city, distributing to the local agriculture and industrial economy, as well. In the late months of 2016 the road became fully operative from one end to the other.
The western branch reached Pyrgos and finally Kyparissia in 1902. SPAP also acquired the line between Myloi (near Argos) and Kalamata via Tripoli, from the bankrupt Southern Greece Railways (Sidirodromoi Mesimbrinis Ellados). The two routes to Kalamata, via Patras and via Tripoli, merged at Zevgolatio.
BRETT STEVENS/Getty Images. Kalamata olives are a widely recognized and much-loved type of Greek olive that grow on the Kalamon tree and hail from the Peloponnese region in southern Greece.(Note ...
It borders Western Greece to the north and Attica to the north-east. The region has an area of about 15,490 square kilometres (5,980 square miles). It covers most of the Peloponnese peninsula, except for the northwestern subregions of Achaea and Elis which belong to Western Greece and a small portion of the Argolid peninsula that is part of Attica.
The University of the Peloponnese [Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου (ΠΑ.ΠΕΛ.)] is a Greek tertiary educational institution, composed of campuses in Tripoli, Corinth, Kalamata, Nafplio, Sparta, and Patras [1].The University of Peloponnese offers 22 undergraduate study programs that grant corresponding titles (Bachelor or Integrated Master) and 36 postgraduate study ...