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Of its 130,000 inhabitants at the start of the 20th century, around 60,000 were Sephardic Jews. [5] Some Romaniote Jews were also present. [ 6 ] With the help of the influx of cultures, Thessaloníki, called Selânik in Turkish, became one of the most important cities in the Empire, viable as the foremost trade and commercial center in the Balkans.
The service sector accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total labour force of Thessaloniki. [226] Of those working in services, 20% were employed in trade; 13% in education and healthcare; 7.1% in real estate; 6.3% in transport, communications and storage; 6.1% in the finance industry and service-providing organizations; 5.7% in public ...
Pages in category "20th century in Thessaloniki" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
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.
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On March 28, 1928, the Presidium of the General Executive Committee of the USSR passed the decree "On the attaching for Komzet of free territory near the Amur River in the Far East for settlement of the working Jews." The decree meant that there was "a possibility of establishment of a Jewish administrative territorial unit on the territory of ...
Pages in category "Modern history of Thessaloniki" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Around the early 1900s, Julius and Herman Hegeler left to start their own zinc works in Danville, Illinois. [5] Coal mining stopped in 1936. In 1950, the company purchased Meadowbrook Corporation, a zinc smelter near Clarksburg, West Virginia, and New Castle Chemical Company near Pittsburgh from Dow Chemicals.