* Eustathios of Thessalonike, Saint, archbishop of Thessaloniki and writer

* Saint Eustathios of Crimea ( 1745-1759 ), martyred in Theodosia, Crimea ( 1759 )

* 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.

John appointed a number of his father's personal retainers to high office, men such as Eustathios Kamytzes, Michaelitzes Styppeiotes and George Dekanos.

Eustathios () or Eumathios (), surnamed Makrembolites (, " living near the Makros Embolos "), latinized as Eustathius Macrembolites, was a Byzantine revivalist of the Greek romance, flourished in the second half of the 12th century CE.

The present tower likely replaced an older Byzantine tower mentioned by the 12th century archbishop Eustathios during the sack of 1185.

Saint Eustace, also known as Eustachius or Eustathius or Eustathios, was a Christian martyr who lived in the 2nd century AD.

Only four of these novels exist today, just one of which is written in prose: Hysimine and Hysimines by Eustathios Makrembolites.

Incorrupt relics of Anthony, John, and Eustathios at the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

She was greeted with an oration from Eustathios, former Master of the Rhetors and archbishop of Thessalonica.

Eustathios of Thessalonica produced a speech to celebrate the occasion, whose title in the manuscript is Oration on the Public Celebrations of the Betrothal of the Two Royal Children.

In that year, he entered Apulia again and defeated the catepan Eustathios Palatinos near Taranto.

The ancient Greek novel was imitated by four writers of the 12th century: Eustathios Makrembolites, Theodore Prodromos, Niketas Eugenianos, and Constantine Manasses.

On 8 November 1912 ( 26 October Old Style ), the feast day of the city's patron saint, Saint Demetrius, the Greek Army accepted the surrender of the Ottoman garrison at Thessaloniki.

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

As of the national elections of 17 June 2012 the largest party in Thessaloniki is New Democracy with 27. 8 %, followed by the Coalition of the Radical Left ( 27. 0 %) and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( 10. 2 %).

For Thessaloniki 1984, he scored 8 / 14 (+ 2 − 0 = 12 ).

In the official statistics of the Vilayet of Thessaloniki from 1906-1907 in Nevrokop were counted 20 neighborhoods with 1, 432 houses, 598 shops, 12 mosques, four mesjids, two churches and more than 8 tekkes that described a well developed and organized Muslim community.

** Thessaloniki 1984, 1st board, 8 / 12, + 7 = 2 − 3 ;

In Thessaloniki, Paul states that he and his companions " worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you " ( 2 Thessalonians 3: 8 ).

* Thessaloniki 1988, board 1, 8. 5 / 11 (+ 6 = 5-0 ), board silver, rating bronze ;

Kalomira performed in Thessaloniki ’ s FOCUS from July 8 to August 14.

It is the second largest municipality ( with a population of 87, 255 as of 2001 ) of the Thessaloniki Urban Area as well as one of the largest in Greece, with a population increase of 8 % since the 1991 census.

* George Seremetis ( 1879 – 1950 ), lawyer, mayor of Thessaloniki

Around 680 AD the Bulgar group, led by khan Kuber ( who belonged to the same clan as the Danubian Bulgarian khan Asparukh ), settled in the Pelagonian plain, and launched campaigns to the region of Thessaloniki.

Thessaloniki ( ), also known as Thessalonica ( or ) and Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

When Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister at the time, was asked if the Greek army should move towards Thessaloniki or Monastir ( now Bitola, Republic of Macedonia ), Venizelos replied " Salonique à tout prix!

Thessaloniki was also home to a military camp-converted-concentration camp, known in German as " Konzentrationslager Pavlo Mela " ( Pavlos Melas Concentration Camp ), where members of the resistance and other non-favourable people towards the German occupation from all over Greece were held either to be killed or sent to concentration camps elsewhere in Europe.

The municipalities that are included in the Thessaloniki Urban Area are those of Thessaloniki ( the city center and largest in population size ), Kalamaria, Neapoli-Sykies, Pavlos Melas, Kordelio-Evosmos, Ampelokipoi-Menemeni, and the municipal unit of Pylaia, part of the municipality of Pylaia-Chortiatis.

Vasilatos, I. Megremi, M. Economou-Eliopoulos, 2010 In: CHRISTOFIDES, G., KANTIRANIS, N., KOSTOPOULOS, D. S., CHATZIPETROS A. A., ( eds ), Scientiic Annales, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Sp.

), Klazomenai, Teos and Abdera: Metropoleis and Colony, Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Archaeological Museum of Abdera ( Oct. 2001 ), Thessaloniki 2004, 221-234.

* Demetrius of Thessaloniki ( d. 306 ), Christian martyr and saint

** Marcel Samuel Raphael Cohen ( aka Tekin Alp ) ( 1883 – 1961 ), born to a Jewish family in Salonica under Ottoman control ( now Thessaloniki, Greece ), became one of the founding fathers of Turkish nationalism and an ideologue of Pan-Turkism.

Foreign commerce flourished to such an extent that leading Albanian merchants had their own agencies in Venice, Ragusa ( modern Dubrovnik, Croatia ), and Thessalonica ( now Thessaloniki, Greece ).

In 1986, the World Jewish Congress alleged that Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim, a former secretary general of the United Nations, had lied about his service as an officer in the mounted corps of the Nazi Party " Sturmabteilung " ( SA ), and his time as German ordnance officer in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 1942 to 1943.

Motorway 1 ( A1 ), colloquially referred to as the PAThE motorway ( derived from the initials of the route: Patras – Athens – Thessaloniki – Evzoni ( the border crossing with the Republic of Macedonia )); is the oldest and most important motorway of Greece, connecting the country's largest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki and passing through many important regions of Greece on a south-north direction.

* E86: Albanian border at Kristalopigi – Florina – Edessa – Giannitsa – Gefyra ( west of Thessaloniki ), through GR-2

* Apollonia ( Mygdonia ), an inland city near modern Apollonia, Thessaloniki, visited by the apostle Paul

The White Tower of Thessaloniki ( Lefkos Pyrgos ), is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece and a symbol of Greek sovereignty over Macedonia.

* 1988 – The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.

In 1988, Judit and her sisters along with Ildikó Mádl, represented Hungary in the Women's section of the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki.

Judit with sister Sofia at Thessaloniki 1988

Many of its architectural treasures still remain, adding value to the city as a tourist destination, while several early Christian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988.

Finally at Thessaloniki 1988, he scored 7½ / 13 (+ 3 − 1 = 9 ).

England also won team bronzes at Haifa 1976, Thessaloniki 1988 and Novi Sad 1990.

Short's main highlights are: team silver medals in the chess Olympiads of Thessaloniki 1984, Dubai 1986 ( where he also took gold medal for the best individual performance on board three ) and Thessaloniki 1988.

* Thessaloniki 1988 board 1, 7 / 12 (+ 3 = 8-1 );

Also in 1988, the vast majority of members and officials from Communist Youth of Greece ( KNE ), the KKE's youth wing, split to form the New Left Current ( NAR ), drawing mainly youth in major cities, especially in Thessaloniki.

He was a member of the gold-medal winning Soviet Union team at the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki 1988 and played for Estonia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992 – 2004.

** Thessaloniki 1988, 1st board, 5 / 12, + 4 = 2 − 6 ;

* Thessaloniki 1988, USSR 2nd reserve, 6½ / 9 (+ 4 = 5-0 ), team gold

In recent years, the study of Cappadocian has seen a revival following the pioneering work on Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988 ) by Sarah Grey Thomason and Terrence Kaufman, and a series of publications on various aspects of Cappadocian linguistics by Mark Janse, professor at Roosevelt Academy, who has also contributed a grammatical survey of Cappadocian to a forthcoming handbook on Modern Greek dialects edited by Christos Tzitzilis ( Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ).

* Administered under FIDE: Olympiad – Thessaloniki 1984, Thessaloniki 1988

After becoming New Zealand national chess champion in 1987-8, he represented New Zealand in three Chess Olympiads: the 27th in Dubai in 1986, the 28th in Thessaloniki in 1988, and the 30th in Manila in 1992.

In 1988, she graduated from the School of Early Childhood Education of the Faculty of Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have won the Greek Championship ( 1988 ).

Although an ethnic Russian, she lived in Tbilisi, Georgia until 1988 when she abruptly eloped to the United States by marrying U. S. Team Captain John Donaldson at the World Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki, Greece.