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.