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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.
Thessaloniki was the 2014 European Youth Capital. The city's main university, Aristotle University, is the largest in Greece and the Balkans. [ 13] The city was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, who named it after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great.
1224. Preceded by. Succeeded by. Byzantine Empire (Angelos dynasty) Empire of Thessalonica. The Kingdom of Thessalonica ( Greek: Βασίλειον τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης, romanized : Vasílion tis Thessaloníkis) was a short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade over conquered Byzantine lands in Macedonia and Thessaly .
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 Thessalonica, under the ...
The siege of Thessalonicabetween 1422 and 1430 saw the Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Murad II, capture the city of Thessalonica. Afterwards, the city remained in Ottoman hands for the next five centuries until it became part of the Kingdom of Greecein 1912. Thessalonica had already been under Ottoman control from 1387 to 1403 before returning to ...
In 1943, the Salonican Jews were forced into a ghetto near the rail lines, and deportations began to the concentration camps and labor camps. The majority of the 72,000 in the community were murdered in the camps. This resulted in the near-extermination of the community. Only 1,200 Jews live in the city today.
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.
The siege of Thessalonica in 676–678 was an attempt by the local Slavic tribes to capture the Byzantine city of Thessalonica, taking advantage of the preoccupation of the Byzantine Empire with the repulsion of the First Arab Siege of Constantinople. The events of the siege are described in the second book of the Miracles of Saint Demetrius .