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The city came to become the largest Jewish city in the world and remained as such for at least 200 years, often called "Mother of Israel". 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]
Thessaloniki (/ ˌ θ ɛ s ə l ə ˈ n iː k i /; Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici] ⓘ), also known as Thessalonica (English: / ˌ θ ɛ s ə l ə ˈ n aɪ k ə, ˌ θ ɛ s ə ˈ l ɒ n ɪ k ə /), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (/ s ə ˈ l ɒ n ɪ k ə, ˌ s æ l ə ˈ n iː k ə /), is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its ...
Iakovos J. Aktsoglou, The emergence / development of social and working class movement in the city of Thessaloniki (working associations and labor unions), “Balkan Studies”, Thessaloniki, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1997, pp. 285–306. Joshua Starr, The Socialist Federation of Saloniki, Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct. 1945), pp. 323-336
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According to official Greek statistics, there were 5,000 Filipinos in Greece in 1991, which declined to 2,000 by 1996. In reality, there were many more working in the country illegally. [2] [3] The Philippine community have set up a school for their children in downtown Athens. [4]
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.
In “The City and the City,” which bowed in the Berlin Film Festival’s competitive Encounters strand and will have a special screening on March 15 at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film ...
In 1777 a French abbot, Belley, in his study on the history and monuments of the city of Thessalonica, wrote: "There exist a great number of inscriptions, although a multitude of them were thrown into the sea, in order to prevent the fleet of the Saracens from landing at the city, which they sacked at the beginning of the tenth century."