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Thessaloniki was the 2014 European Youth Capital. The city's main university, Aristotle University, is the largest in Greece and the Balkans. [13] The city was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, who named it after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great.
Urban ( OASTH -operated) Lines 1, 9 and 36 are also operated by KTEL. 40-92. Regional ( KTEL -operated) Lines 42, 43, 45, 59 and 60 are within Thessaloniki's urban area. Lines 52 and 72 are operated by OASTH despite being outside Thessaloniki's urban area. Κ-prefixed routes. Trunk routes.
Macedonian-era crater at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The town was founded around 315 BC by King Cassander of Macedon, on or near the site of the ancient town of Therma and twenty-six other local villages. Cassander named the new city after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great.
Upper Town (Thessaloniki) Coordinates: 40.642°N 22.952°E. Thessaloniki's Upper Town called Ano Poli ( Greek: Άνω Πόλη, [ˈano ˈpoli]) is the old town of Thessaloniki and is located around the city's acropolis north of the city center. The neighborhood is known for its well preserved Byzantine and Ottoman era structures and urban ...
Telephone numbers in Greece. This is a list of dialing codes in Greece. The first digit represents the type of service. 1 is used for short codes, 2 for geographical numbers (3 and 4 are reserved for that purpose too), 5 is used for inter-network routing purposes (non-dialable codes) and VPNs, 6 for mobile services, 7 is reserved for universal ...
This is a list of Greece 's busiest airports per year by passenger traffic. Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at ATH HEW HER SKG RHO CFU CHQ KGS JTR ZTH airports. See Wikidata query.
The Church of Saint Demetrius, or Hagios Demetrios ( Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος ), is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki (in Central Macedonia, Greece ), dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire. Since 1988, it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage ...
The portion of the Via Egnatia which passed through Thessaloniki was the city's Decumanus Maximus (main road), and runs below present-day Egnatia Street at 5.4 metres (18 ft) below ground level. Although the location of the Via Egnatia in Thessaloniki was known when the metro line was planned, it was uncertain what else was buried nearby.