Amaliada

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Amaliada (Greek: Demotic: Αμαλιάδα, Katharevousa: Αμαλιάς, Amalias) is a municipality in the western Peloponnese, in Greece. It has 32,090 citizens (of whom 18,261 live in the town of Amaliás). It is near the archaeological site of Elis, the city-state whose territory was the site for the ancient Olympic Games. It is situated on the valley of Ilia and almost directly south of the Pineios 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 (after Pyrgos). It is the westernmost city in the Peloponnese.

It was named after Queen Amalia of Greece in the 1830s by merging two communes, Kalitsa and Dervitselepi, into Amalias. It features city square with beautiful pine trees and a fountain. Local streets are mainly in grid order running almost due north, south, east, and west.. On the east side, Amaliada has a lake and public stadium (largely used for soccer). Amaliada hospital and the monastery of Aghia Frangavilli to its southeast. Amaliada has one train station (located west of the city square) and two in the municipal district. A street in Amaliada's west side is named Hiroshima in memory of the victims of the destruction of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. The beaches of Kourouta and Palouki are further west. The radio station for this community is the Radio Station of Amalias (RSA). The soccer team which plays for the juniors or the tertiary league is Asteras Amaliadas.