Place:Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece

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NameThessaloniki
Alt namesThessalonikesource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 463
Thessalonikisource: Wikipedia
Thessalonikissource: Family History Library Catalog
Thessaloníki departmentsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypePrefecture
Coordinates40.667°N 23.0°E
Located inCentral Macedonia, Greece
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Epanomí
Evosmos
Kalamaria
Langadhás
Panorama
Sokhós
Thessaloniki
Triandria
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Thessaloniki ( Mitropolitiki Periohi Thessaloníkis, Metropolitan Area 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.

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History

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The area that was to become the Thessaloniki regional unit was annexed by Greece in 1912, during the First Balkan War. The area was struck by an earthquake in 1978, and by flooding due to rainfall in October 2006. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, was born in Salonica, the name for the city of Thessaloniki when it was part of the Ottoman Empire.

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