• The Battle of Kalamata (Greek: Μάχη της Καλαμάτας) took place on 9 September 1944, between ELAS (the military branch of the National Liberation Front)...
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    Kalamata (Greek: Καλαμάτα [kalaˈmata]) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece after Patras, and the largest city...
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    Messenia (category Prefectures of Greece)
    Messenia, including Battle of Meligalas, Battle of Kalamata, Battle of Chora - Agorelitsa. The population in the area of Kalamata and Messene increased...
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    Cyprus Regiment (category Battalions of the British Army)
    and served in the Battle of France, in the Greek Campaign (the Battle of Greece, in which about 600 soldiers were captured at Kalamata, in 1941), North...
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    ELAS (category Military wings of communist parties)
    Battle of Karoutes September 1944 – Battle of Kalamata September 1944Battle of Meligalas This list contains the names of the most well-known ELAS leaders...
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    Jack Hinton (category New Zealand World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions at Kalamata on 29 April 1941 during the Battle of Greece...
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  • the Peloponnese in September 1944, a part of the collaborationist forces in Kalamata withdrew to Meligalas, where a force of about 1,000 Battalionists gathered...
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    Most in the Czech Republic. The soldiers captured in Kalamata were transported by train to prisoner of war camps. After Germany invaded Poland, France declared...
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  • Vuosalmi – 1944 Battle of Nietjärvi – 1944 Battle of Ilomantsi – 1944 Battle of Tornio – 1944 Battle of Rovaniemi – 1944 Battle of Kuhmo Battle of Alalia – between...
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    Yugoslavia. The resulting "Battle of Greece" ended with the fall of Kalamata in the Peloponnese on April 30, the evacuation of the Commonwealth Expeditionary...
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  • Stalag IX-C (category World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Germany)
    the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions at Kalamata on 29 April 1941 during the Battle of Greece...
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    The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita), were the attacks on Greece by Italy...
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  • Operation Mincemeat (category Allied invasion of Sicily)
    assault on the beach south of CAPE ARAXOS and that a similar reinforcement should be made for the 56th Division at KALAMATA. The letter went on to identify...
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  • Papatsonis family (category People of the Greek War of Independence)
    estates of the Sultan's sister. These estates initially included several villages across the provinces of Androusa, Arcadia, Leontari, and Kalamata. These...
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  • Dionysios Papadongonas (category 1944 deaths)
    In November 1943, Papadongonas left Kalamata for Athens, but returned to the Peloponnese in March 1944 as head of the Security Battalions' II Gendarmerie...
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  • sucking out 4 people aboard; the plane lands safely. 1986, 13 September: The Kalamata earthquake causes much damage and kills 20 people. 1987, March: The Sismik...
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    Roy Courlander (category New Zealand military personnel of World War II)
    At Kalamata, Greece on 29 April 1941 he was captured and interned in Stalag XVIII-D at Maribor in Yugoslavia.[citation needed] As a prisoner of war,...
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    Chites under the command of militant leader Manganas took over the town of Kalamata in the Peloponnese. They released 32 right-wing prisoners and terrorized...
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    The Maniots pursued the Egyptians all the way to Kalamata before returning to Verga. This battle not only was costly for Ibrahim, who suffered 2,500...
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  • This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
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    Laconia (redirect from History of Laconia)
    National Road 39, Tripoli – Sparti – Gytheio Greek National Road 82, Pylos – Kalamata – Sparti Greek National Road 86, Gytheio – Monemvasia Molaoi to Leonidi...
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    strongholds: a siege of the island of Santa Maura (Lefkada) in August 1658 failed, but in 1659, the Venetians, aided by the Maniots, sacked Kalamata in the Peloponnese...
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  • 1986 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing...
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    the leadership of Moïse Tshombe. Hoare chronicled his exploits in his book the Road to Kalamata. In 1964, Tshombe (then Prime Minister of Congo) hired Major...
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    The same day, a force of 2,000 Maniots under the command of Petros Mavromichalis advanced on the Messenian town of Kalamata, where they united with...
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    Patras and 55 kilometers away from Kalamata. It has an altitude of 294 meters and it is built on the foothills of Aigaleo Mountain and 12 kilometers away...
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    of the future Ionia Odos linking Ioannina with Patras and Kalamata, the motorway bypass of the GR-5 around Arta was opened in 1997. The main highways...
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    won the Battle of Maritsa in 1371. The Serbian forces were then led by the King Vukašin of Serbia, the father of Prince Marko and the co-ruler of the last...
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    during the Cretan revolt of 1866. 943 Greeks, mostly women and children, sought refuge in the monastery. After three days of battle and under orders from...
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    over twenty years, for the creation of the International Air Force Training Centre (IAFTC) in the Greek city of Kalamata. The IAFTC will provide advanced...
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