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Thessaloniki Flights
Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece with a population of 1,000,000
inhabitants, is one of the oldest cities in Europe. It stretches over twelve kilometers
in a bowl formed by low hills facing a bay that opens into the Gulf Thermaikos.
It was founded about 315 B.C., on a site of old prehistoric settlements going
back to 2300 B.C., by Cassander, King of Macedonia, and was named after his wife,
Thessaloniki, sister of Alexander The Great. Since then, Thessaloniki has become
the chief city of Macedonia and its most important commercial port. In Roman times
it was visited by Saint Paul, who preached the new religion, and who later addressed
his two well-known epistles (the oldest written documents of Christian literature)
to the Christians of Thessaloniki.
The Byzantine times
In Byzantine times, Thessaloniki became a cultural and artistic centre second
only to Constantinople in the whole empire.
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