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Thessaloniki
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| Thessaloniki is a historic city in Greece. In the long course of history found
in the possession of various peoples and cultural place was convergence of many
nationalities. Between 1912 and the end of the First Balkan War is the second
largest city of the modern Greek state is today the largest city of Macedonia
and the capital region of Central Macedonia, with a population of 800,764
inhabitants 2001. |
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| The establishment coincides with the beginning of the Hellenistic era, the
assumption that the universal empire of Alexander the Great by epigonous and
sovereignty of Greek culture in most of the known, then the western man world.
The heir of the kingdom of Macedonia and the wife half sister of Alexander the
Great, Cassander, founded the city together Polihni 26, located around the
Thermaic bay, and gave the name of his wife, daughter of Philip II, Thessaloniki
(name which came after the successful outcome of the battle Thessalians).
Today Thessaloniki is a major Balkan and Eastern European studies seats having two universities, while efforts to epanefresi old role as a center of the Balkans. |
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The area was once Ladadika with brothels and infamous kentra.Ena of the best
Greek Songs "The Ladadika" to sing Dimitris Mitropanos us recite that old lost
era of Ladadika and other states in the verse: "So what I want, Ladadika to sell
what you want "referring to the financial transaction between the customer and
the region has ierodoulis.Simera anaplastei and hosts restaurants, cafes, bars
and clubs in completely changing the character.
