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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.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 (Greek: Μεγάλη Πυρκαγιά της Θεσσαλονίκης, 1917) destroyed two thirds of the city of Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, leaving more than 70,000 homeless. [1] The fire burned for 32 hours and destroyed 9,500 houses within an extent of 1 square kilometer.
The School of Athens, a famous fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael Portrait of Galileo Galilei, considered the "father" of observational astronomy, [5] modern physics, [6] the scientific method, [7] and modern science [8] The auditorium of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the leading opera and ballet theatre in Italy Giuseppe Verdi ...
Vergina (Greek: Βεργίνα, Vergína) is a small town in Northern Greece, part of Veria municipality in Imathia, Central Macedonia.Vergina was established in 1922 in the aftermath of the population exchanges after the Treaty of Lausanne and was a separate municipality until 2011, when it was merged with Veroia under the Kallikratis Plan.
This article is a list of notable streets in Thessaloniki, Greece: Nikis Avenue Egnatia Street Tsimiski Street Vasilissis Olgas Avenue Agiou Dimitriou Street Filippou Papanastasiou Monastiriou Antheon (Georgiou Papandreou) Street
The Greek-speaking Romaniotes are the oldest Jewish community in Europe, [1] dating back possibly as far as the sixth century BCE. [2] Many Judeo-Spanish-speaking Sephardim settled in the Ottoman Empire, including areas that are now Greece, after their expulsion from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century.
Ippokrateio General Hospital of Thessaloniki (Greek: Ιπποκράτειο Γενικο Νοσοκομείο Θεσσαλονίκης) is a public hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece. The main building was constructed in 1908 as Hirsch Hospital funded by Maurice de Hirsch (architect Pietro Arrigoni ).