Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The White Tower of Thessaloniki ( Greek: Λευκός ΠύργοςLefkós Pýrgos; Turkish: Beyaz Kule; Ladino: Kuli Blanka) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification, known to have been mentioned around ...
This page is for people born in Thessaloniki (Salonica). Subcategories. This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. A.
Emmanuel Carasso, freemason, Young Turk, anti-Zionist, and proponent for internationalization of Thessaloniki; Isaac Carasso, founder of Groupe Danone (Dannon yogurt) Manolis Chiotis, composer and musician; Nuri Conker, politician and an officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army; Auguste Corteau, pen name of the Greek author Petros ...
The Museum for the Macedonian Struggle is located in the centre of the city Thessaloniki in Central Macedonia, Greece. It occupies a neo-classical building designed by the renowned architect Ernst Ziller and built in 1893. [1] In its six ground-floor rooms the museum graphically illustrates the modern and contemporary history of Greek Macedonia.
Thessalonike ( Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη; 353/2 or 346/5 BC – 295 BC) was a Macedonian Greek princess, the daughter of King Philip II of Macedon by his Thessalian wife or concubine, Nicesipolis. [1] [2] [3] History links her to three of the most powerful men in Macedon—daughter of King Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great and ...
The Thessaloniki History Centre was established by the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki, the largest city in northern Greece, in 1983. It has occupied its present premises (the gift of Anastasios and Ioulia Billis) in Ippodromiou Square since 1995. The purpose of the centre is to collect, rescue, record, and preserve printed, written, and ...