#thessaloniki macedonia greece

[gemsofgreece]

Guys we finally have a winner in the eternal battle...

#greece #funny #shitpost #meme #the fact that even in a world list Athens and Thessaloniki are fighting it out with each other is hilarious #okay i mean technically heraklion has the same rating as athens but let's ignore this #that 0.01 deficit to Thessaloniki can start a civil war #also some credit to chania being also in the list #heraklion #athens #thessaloniki #chania #crete #attica #sterea hellas #central greece #macedonia #greek cuisine #mainland #greek islands

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, May 2023

#mythology #art #greek gods #greek mythology #macedonian dynasty #macedonia #archaeology #archaelogical museum #ancient art #ancient greece #thessaloniki #hellenism #hellenic deities #museum #photography #statues #sculpture #roman art #beauty #portrait #dionysus #zeus #aphrodite

[seamusicpoetry]

Sunset,Thessaloniki,Macedonia,Greece

#sunset #sea #aegean sea #Thessaloniki #Macedonia #Greece #horizon #colours #sunset colours

[caltsoudas]

Alexander The Great

#alexander the great #greece #thessaloniki #history #ancient greece #macedonia #Illustration

[viridiansunset]

Thessaloniki

#aesthetic #architecture #Mediterranean #thessaloniki #Macedonia #Greece #palms

[classicschronicles]

Hi lovelies,

Okay so I am in Greece at the moment, which is so so so so cool because I’ve wanted to come since I was like five. But it was a last minute trip (literally we booked it 24 hours before the flight) and so I know literally nothing about where I am staying. It’s a very cool city called Thessaloniki and has some pretty dope connections to the ancient world, which I thought we could explore together.

The history of Thessaloniki dates back to ancient Macedonia and was a town founded around 315 BC by King Cassander of Macedon. Cassender named the new city after his wife Thessalonike (the half sister of Alexander the Great). Some cool etymology about her name is that it means Victory of the Thessalians (i.e. Thessaly and also form the Greek goddess of victory ‘Nike’). Her name commemorated her being born on the day her father (Phillip II) won a battle with the hero of horsemen from Thessaly. Thessaloniki developed rapidly and by as early as the 2nd century BC it began to build walls which enclosed the city. The city also become a self governing state in the Macedonian Kingdom.

After the fall of the Kingdom of Macedon, Thessaloniki (as the Latin name for it is) became part of the Roman Empire, and became a very important trade hub which connected Byzantium and Dyrrhachium (basically Constantinople and Albania) and facilitated trade between europe and Asia. The city became the capital one of the four roman districts of Macedonia and although it kept its sovereign privileges it did have a praetor overseeing it.

In the 1st century AD, Thessaloniki had a thriving jewish community. Later on, the apostle Paul was sent to preach in the Jewish synagogue and establish and Christian church and write two letter to the Christian community of the city. These became known as the Epistles and Thessalonians.

Modern day Thessaloniki has a very very cool Archaeological Museum which holds and interprets artefacts from the Prehistoric, Archaic, Classical and roman periods from all over Macedonia. I’m literally here for three days but I already don’t want to leave, and I would recommend coming if you ever get the chance. I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

~Z

#classical studies #classics #dark acamedia #greek mythology #ancient rome #roman mythology #ancient greece #ancient world #history #hellenic deities #thessaloniki #greece #macedonia #ancient history #greek history #tourisim

[balkanturksblog]

“   Salonica ceased to be an Ottoman city in November 1912. The capital city of Macedonia had been annexed by the Kingdom of Greece at a time when most of its population was non-Greek. Here, then, the main assignment was to obliterate the Ottoman heritage and to reinvent the Greek antecedents of the city.

   In Salonica, various events facilitated the task of the Greek administration. One major factor of urban reorganization was the big fire of August 1917 which destroyed 9,500 buildings, or approximately two thirds of the city. When the reconstruction process came to an end in the 1930s, nothing much remained of the urban pattern as it had been shaped during the last decades of Ottoman presence. Many Jews had lost their property in downtown Salonica and had been forced to move to suburban quarters. When one looks at photos of the 1930s, one easily remarks that the city had lost, by then, its Oriental character. No minarets in view. No intricate streets. A rigid grid of avenues and lanes arranged following a chequered pattern had replaced the playful Ottoman city.

   While the reconstruction process was going on, efforts were also made to resuscitate the Greek and Christian heritage of Salonica. The Hébrard plan foresaw highlighting of the main monuments of the city through a strategy of destruction of environing constructions and isolation of edifices of historical interest. Thus, small Byzantine churches, which had survived thanks to their invisibility, were transformed into major landmarks. In parallel, public squares were populated with  statues of Greek national heroes and the façades of the buildings all around were covered with typically 'Greek' ornamental motifs, although remaining faithful to Hamidian neoclassicism.

    After the departure of the Turks, the new image of Salonica drew mainly on the Christian and neo-Hellenic past of the city. But, like in other places in Greece, antiquity was also considered a major component of the city's memory. Although not much was done to revive ancient Salonica, subsequent to pioneering archaeological research by the French 'Armée d'Orient' between 1916 and 1919,24 some attention was nevertheless given to prominent late-Roman monuments such as the Rotunda, the Palace and Arch of Galerius, and the Agora.”

Source: Durmont, Paul. Salonica and Beirut: The Reshaping of Two Ottoman Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, p. 195, 196, 197

#turkey #türkiye #macedonia #greece #yunanistan #salonica #thessaloniki #selanik #balkan #makedonya #balkanlar #the balkans #rumeli #architecture #mimari #history #turkish history #tarih #türk tarihi #osmanlı tarihi #ottoman history #jewish #mediterrenian #old #eski #old photography #balkan türkleri #the great fire of thessaloniki 1917 #turkish #turk

[boocook]

The statue of Alexander the Great’s dad King Philip in front of the White Tower with a cheeky Judge Dredd spin for the Thessaloniki Comic Convention… @thecomiccongr #thessaloniki #greece #macedonia #judgedredd #dredd #2000ad #statue #painting #alexanderthegreat #kingphilipofmacedonia #whitetower #thessalonikicomicconvention #kinkyboots https://www.instagram.com/p/CiSF76jsine/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thessaloniki #greece #macedonia #judgedredd #dredd #2000ad #statue #painting #alexanderthegreat #kingphilipofmacedonia #whitetower #thessalonikicomicconvention #kinkyboots

[epestrefe]

Όμορφη Θεσσαλονίκη

#Θεσσαλονίκη #λιμάνι #Μακεδονία #σούρουπο #Thessaloniki #Macedonia #Greece #Ελλάδα #afternoon #port #colours #horizon

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Old map of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Hellas

#greece in photos #Macedonia #mainland #Thessaloniki

[angelkarafilli]

Umbrellas of Thessaloniki,Greece

#Thessaloniki #Greece #umbrellas #art #port #red #sea #Aegean #macedonia

[tozmik]

#greece #dodecanese #rhodes #attica #rizoupoli #smyrna #eastern macedonia #kavala #central macedonia #thessaloniki

[101now]

Greece, Macedonia, Aegean Sea, Thessaloniki Port

#Μacedonia .. Macedonia Timeless Group Posted by Macedonia Travel & News on 2023-02-08 18:26:58 Tagged: , Greece , Macedonia , macedonian , ancient , greek , culture , vergina , sun , blog , star , thessaloniki , hellenic , republic , prilep , tetovo , bitola , kumanovo , veles , gostivar , strumica , stip , struga , negotino , kavadarsi , gevgelija , skopje , debar , matka , ohrid , mavrovo ,…

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#&010;&010;port #Aegean #blog #greece #macedonia #sea #thessaloniki

[mariacallous]

Far-right Golden Dawn supporters have sent letters to at least two MPs from the ruling New Democracy party, vowing to continue targeting them until they are ousted from parliament because they voted for legislation last month that legalised civil marriage for same-sex couples.

New Democracy MP Anna Eythymiou said that after receiving the Golden Dawn letter by email, she then saw it taped to the wall outside her office in Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

“On Tuesday 5/3/2024 I received the attached letter in my email. This morning, upon arriving at my law office, I found that the letter was stuck on the wall at the entrance of the apartment building next to my professional sign with my name and my legal role,” Eythymiou said in a statement.

She called for condemnation of the incidents, which she described as “acts of intimidation and thuggery”.

The letter was signed by the ‘Youth Front of the People’s Association – Golden Dawn’. It said that similar actions will continue against MPs who voted for the same-sex civil marriage bill until they are removed from their parliamentary seats.

The letter describes the vote in favour of the bill as “a direct insult to the values of Hellenism and the principles of the Orthodox Faith”, which “exposes an uncontrolled number of vulnerable, underage members of Greek society to immediate danger and brutally affects their fundamental rights”.

“Finally, we pledge that we will do our utmost to remind the Greek people of your aforementioned value choice until you are removed from any public elected office,” the letter concluded.

Stratos Simopoulos, another New Democracy MP in Thessaloniki, who also voted in favour of the bill, received the same threatening letter.

“‘Ghosts’ of the past are trying to come back,” said Simopoulos – a reference to the banning of Golden Dawn in 2020 under a court verdict that branded the far-right party a criminal organisation.

He said that the letter “also includes threats [targeted at] my appearance at events of a religious and political character”, and called on the Greek Orthodox Church to condemn the incident and stand behind MPs who voted in favour of the bill.

Despite strong opposition, parliament voted last month to legalise civil marriage and childbearing for same-sex couples. The Greek Orthodox Church criticised the legal change, saying it was a step towards the abolition of traditional parenting and the “disappearance” of gender roles.

In April last year, mask-wearing members of Golden Dawn’s youth wing forced their way into an exhibition by artist Sergej Andreevski from neighbouring North Macedonia at a gallery in Thessaloniki’s Kalamaria municipality, accusing him of celebrating past massacres of Greeks.

The far-right activists verbally attacked the artist and later bragged on the internet that they had shut down the exhibition.

[iseo58]

Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

[ancientorigins]

Aigai, once capital of Macedonia, is now an archaeological site rich with history and relics of the Macedonian Kingdom including the tomb of Philip II. Having led the Macedonians to greatness and expanded the kingdom, was Philip actually ‘greater’ than his more famous son Alexander III (the Great)?