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Peloponnese and especially the south-west areas, comprise for centuries one of the most important olive grove of Mediterranean. The great olive warehouses of Pylos with decades of earthenware jars and signs written in Linear B, murals with the olive trees printed on them and the important findings in Mycenae comprise valuable evidence for the olive cultivation and the exploitation of its products. Peloponnesians never gave up the olive production. In byzantine years Peloponnese was considered to be the most important area for olive cultivation of the autocracy.

Even in years of war, people continued their production as it was very important for their survival and economic evolvement. The olive cultivation supplied the soap production and oil production of the area continuously. Even areas totally thin and without water like Mani, counted on olive cultivation for centuries.

After 1860 Peloponnese produced the 66.5% of the olive oil of all Greece. Even today the oil and olive production of the area offers economic robustness to the people. All five counties and especially the southern part of Peloponnese produce great quantities of olive oil of great quality!