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 ca 800,764 inhabitants.
The city coincides with the beginning of the
Hellenistic era, and the universal empire of Alexander
the Great and the
sovereignty of the Greek culture in most of the known,
for that era, Western world. The heir of the
kingdom of Macedonia and husband of the step sister of
Alexander, Cassandra, founded the city together 26
smaller towns, around the Thermaikos Gulf, and
gave the name of his wife, daughter of Philip II, Thessaloniki .
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 establishing 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 century. Besides, especially
since middle of the 19th century, was the most cosmopolitan urban
centre of the Ottoman Empire and the most important pole
of political movements and movements.
The unification to the Greek state in 1912 with the
consequent relocation of the Muslim population but also
the arrival, a decade later, of Christian refugee
populations from Anatolia and Asia Minor contributed to
change 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. 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 educational city having two
universities, while attempts are made to become the
former role as a centre of the Balkans.
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