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  2. Thessaloniki - Wikipedia

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    Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Axios. The municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical centre, had a population of 319,045 in 2021, [5] while the Thessaloniki metropolitan area had 1,006,112 inhabitants and the greater region had 1,092,919.

  3. History of Thessaloniki - Wikipedia

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    Macedonian-era crater at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The town was founded around 315 BC by King Cassander of Macedon, on or near the site of the ancient town of Therma and twenty-six other local villages. Cassander named the new city after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great.

  4. White Tower of Thessaloniki - Wikipedia

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    The White Tower of Thessaloniki ( Greek: Λευκός ΠύργοςLefkós Pýrgos; Turkish: Beyaz Kule; Ladino: Kuli Blanka) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification, known to have been mentioned around ...

  5. Arch of Galerius and Rotunda - Wikipedia

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    The Arch of Galerius ( Greek: Αψίδα του Γαλερίου) or Kamara (Καμάρα) and the Rotunda (Ροτόντα) are neighbouring early 4th-century AD monuments in the city of Thessaloniki, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. As an outstanding example of early Byzantine art and architecture, in addition to the ...

  6. Thessaloniki (municipality) - Wikipedia

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    The Municipality of Thessaloniki (Greek: Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης, Dímos Thessaloníkis) is the second largest municipality by population in Greece after the Municipality of Athens. According to the 2021 Greek census , it has a population of 319,045 inhabitants. [ 2 ]

  7. Port of Thessaloniki - Wikipedia

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    The Port of Thessaloniki is the country’s largest export port and the main sea gate of the Balkans and Southeast Europe. Containers are handled through a specially designed area located in the western part of Pier 6. The 550m long and 340m wide Container Terminal is part of the Free Zone, connected with the national rail network, and extends ...

  8. Aristotelous Square - Wikipedia

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    Aristotelous Square ( Greek: Πλατεία Αριστοτέλους, IPA: [plaˈtia aristoˈtelus], " Aristotle Square") is the main city square of Thessaloniki, Greece and is located on Nikis avenue (on the city's waterfront), in the city center. It was designed by French architect Ernest Hébrard in 1918, but most of the square was built in ...

  9. Empire of Thessalonica - Wikipedia

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    Empire of Thessalonica. The Empire of Thessalonica is a historiographic term used by some modern scholars [ 2] to refer to the short-lived Byzantine Greek state centred on the city of Thessalonica between 1224 and 1246 ( sensu stricto until 1242) and ruled by the Komnenodoukas dynasty of Epirus. At the time of its establishment, the Empire of ...

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