Thessaloniki travel guide
Thessaloniki is a historic city in Greece and the
Balkans. In the long historical course was found in
possession of various peoples and has been a place of
cultural convergence of many ethnicities. Between 1912
and the end of the First Balkan War is the second
largest city of the modern Greek state and today is the
largest city and capital of Macedonia region of Central
Macedonia, with a population of 800,764 inhabitants
(2001).
The establishment coincides with the beginning of the
Hellenistic era, the assumption that universal empire of
Alexander the Great from the Epigonoi and the
sovereignty of the Greek culture in most of the known,
for the then Western human world. The heir of the
kingdom of Macedonia and husband eterothalous sister of
Alexander, Cassander, founded the city together 26
polichnes, located around the Thermaikos Gulf, and gave
the name of his wife, daughter of Philip II,
Thessaloniki (name came after a successful battle on
Thessalon).
In the BC 2 century went to Roman domination, like the
rest of the Hellenic and Asia Minor Hellenistic area,
and was originally one of four seats administration of
the provinces of Macedonia and later became the capital
of the Roman whole issue of Macedonia. In the beginning
of the transition from the Roman Empire in the Christian
Empire of the East by transferring the capital from east
Constantine the Great, was due to its importent
strategic position, one of the candidate cities, which
were proposed as replacements of Rome. Despite that,
however, preferred Byzantium as a new capital city,
Thessaloniki had a political and cultural role.
The Ottoman advance in the peninsula of Aimos and
Thessaloniki in 1432 the Kingdom of Osmanlides, where it
remained for five centuries. The multinational character
of the Empire favoured after a few decades, the
establishment of the Jewish people from Iberia and
Northern Europe. This population shift has highlighted
Thessaloniki as a main global Jewish metropolis and at
least until the early 20 th century. Besides, especially
since mid-19 th century, was the most cosmopolitan urban
centre of the Ottoman Empire and the most important pole
of political movements and movements.
The attachment of the mainstream of the national Greek
state in 1912 with the consequent relocation of the
Muslim population but also the arrival, a decade later,
Christian refugee populations Anatolia and Asia Minor
contributed to changing the texture of the population
turning the city into an urban state with sovereignty of
the Greek element and all features of the Greek urban
type. The architecture and urban change, accelerated by
the great fire of 1917 and the efforts of the new Greek
government for exellinismo of architectural styles with
the destruction of Muslim monuments. Recent events
related to population change in the city is the
annihilation of the Jewish community by Nazi
troops at the time of the triple occupation and the wave
of internal migration to urban centres began the decade
of'50.
Today Thessaloniki is one of the most important Balkan
and Eastern European Studies seats having two
universities, while attempts are made to epanefresi the
former role as a centre of the Balkans.
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