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Amaliada
Amaliada
(Greek: Modern: Αμαλιάδα, Ancient: Αμαλιάς, Amalias) or
Amaliada City is a city in the western
Peloponnese,
in
Greece.
It has 32,040 citizens (of which about 18,000 live in the
city and the rest lives within Amalias). It is near the
archealogical site of
Ancient Elis,
which was the city that held the ancient
Olympic Games.
It is situated on the valley of the
Prefecture of Ilia
and almost directly south of the
Peneus
river, 80 km from
Patras,
7 km form Savalia, 5 km from Kourouta, 20 km from
Pyrgos
291 km from
Athens
and 5 km from the
Ionian sea.
It is ranked the second largest city in Ilia. It is the
westernmost city in the Peloponnese.
It is named after
Queen Amalia in the 1830s by merging the two communes, one
of them being Kallitsa into Amalias.
It features
city square with beautiful pine trees and a fountain. Local
streets are mainly in grid order almost running north to
south and east to west. A
laike
is situated in Amaliada's east side along with a public
stadium that mainly plays soccer. Amaliada has a
hospital
in its southeast and a monastery named
Aghia Frangavilli
to its southeast. Amaliada has one train station (located
west of the city square) and two in the municipality.
A street in
Amaliada's west side named Hiroshima is mainly dedicated in
memory of victims of the
Hiroshima Bombing
before the end of
WWII.
Further west are Amaliada's closest beaches of Kourouta and
Palouki.
The radio
station for this community is the
Radio Station of Amalias
(RSA).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaliada
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