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Thessaloniki developed rapidly and as early as the 2nd century BC, it had its first walls built, which enclosed and protected the city. The city also came to be an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Macedon, with its own parliament where a King was represented that could interfere in the city's domestic affairs.
The White Tower of Thessaloniki, built by the Ottomans in 1430 and rebuilt in 1535, [89] has become a symbol of the city. Thessaloniki was the capital of the Sanjak of Selanik within the wider Rumeli Eyalet (Balkans) [101] until 1826, and subsequently the capital of Selanik Eyalet (after 1867, the Selanik Vilayet).
The Rotunda of Galerius, also known as the Rotunda of Saint George, is 125 m (410 ft) northeast of the Arch of Galerius at 40°37'59.77"N, 22°57'9.77"E. It is also known (by its consecration and use) as the Greek Orthodox Church of Agios Georgios , and is informally called the Church of the Rotunda (or simply The Rotunda).
The Konak (Turkish: Konak, Greek: Κονάκι; also known as the Government House (Διοικητήριο)) is an Ottoman-era building in central Thessaloniki, Greece. Originally built in 1891 as the residence of the governor-general of the Salonica Vilayet and the seat of the Ottoman authorities, it now houses the Ministry of Macedonia and ...
The Walls of Thessaloniki (Greek: Τείχη της Θεσσαλονίκης, Teíchi tis Thessaloníkis) are the 4 kilometer-long city walls surrounding the city of Thessaloniki during the Middle Ages and until the late 19th century, when large parts of the walls, including the entire seaward section, were demolished as part of the Ottoman authorities' restructuring of Thessaloniki's urban ...
The sacking continued for a full week before the raiders departed for their bases in the Levant, having freed 4,000 Muslim prisoners while capturing 60 ships, [4] gaining a large amount of loot and 22,000 captives, mostly young people, and destroying 60 Byzantine ships in the process. [6]
View of the Heptapyrgion from the south-east. Photo c.1918. The Heptapyrgion is located in the north-eastern corner of the city's acropolis. Although the urban core of the city essentially dates from its foundation by Cassander in 316 BC, the walls that defined the medieval and early modern city, and that are still visible today, date to the late Antiquity, when the Roman emperor Theodosius I ...
The Church of Panagia Chalkeon (Greek: Παναγία τῶν Χαλκέων) is an 11th-century Byzantine church in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.The church's well-preserved Byzantine architecture and testimony to the importance of Thessaloniki in early and medieval Christianity led it to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988 along with other Paleochristian and ...