Monument to victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire  erected in Greek Kalamata

ArmInfo.  A monument to the  victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire is erected in  Greek Kalamata.

The monument was erected on November 17 at the initiative of the  Armenian community and with the support of the city municipality. The  opening ceremony was attended by the head of the diocese of the  Armenian Apostolic Church of Greece, Archbishop Gegham Khacheryan.

Kalamata is a city and port in Greece, in the southwest of the  Peloponnese. Located at an altitude of 21 meters above sea level, on  the shores of the Gulf of Messiniakos of the Ionian Sea, on the left  bank of the Pamisos River. It is located 255 kilometers southwest of  Athens, 215 kilometers south of Patras. It is the administrative  center of the community of the same name (Dima) and the peripheral  unit of Messinia in the periphery of the Peloponnese. The population  is 54,100 inhabitants according to the 2011 census.