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Thessaloniki (/ ˌ θ ɛ s ə l ə ˈ n iː k i /; Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici] ⓘ), also known as Thessalonica (English: / ˌ θ ɛ s ə l ə ˈ n aɪ k ə, ˌ θ ɛ s ə ˈ l ɒ n ɪ k ə /), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (/ s ə ˈ l ɒ n ɪ k ə, ˌ s æ l ə ˈ n iː k ə /), is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its ...
Ever since, Thessaloniki has been dubbed as symprotévousa ("co-capital"). On 18 August [O.S. 5 August] 1917, the city faced one of it most destructive events, where most of the city was destroyed by a single fire accidentally sparked by French soldiers in encampments in the city. The fire left some 72,000 homeless, many of them Jewish, of a ...
The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.
By the time of Ottoman rule of the region as part of Salonica vilayet in the 19th century, the arch was loosely speculated to be dedicated to one of the famous rulers people were familiar with - Constantine the Great, Philip II of Macedon, and Alexander the Great. It was sometimes called the "Arch of Philip", "Arc du Constantin", and ...
Thessaloniki (Greek: Μητροπολιτική ενότητα Θεσσαλονίκης Mitropolitiki enotita Thessaloníkis, Metropolitan unit of Thessaloniki) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia and its capital is the city of Thessaloniki.
Las Incantadas of Salonica ([l a s e ŋ k a n ˈ t a ð a s]; [a] Greek: Μαγεμένες της Θεσσαλονίκης or Λας Ινκαντάδας, meaning "the enchanted ones") is a group of Roman sculptures from a portico dating to the second century AD that once adorned the Roman Forum of Thessalonica in Northern Greece, and were considered to be among the most impressive and ...