He also took part as a special guest at the 46th International Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.

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.

Thessaloniki is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for the rest of southeastern Europe ; its commercial port is also of great importance for Greece and the southeastern European hinterland.

Events such as the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival are held annually, while the city also hosts the largest bi-annual meeting of the Greek diaspora.

In addition to its historic roots, Thessaloniki is also a very popular tourist destination in Greece.

Around the time of the Roman Empire Thessaloniki was also an important center for the spread of Christianity ; the First Epistle to the Thessalonians written by Paul the Apostle is the first written book of the New Testament.

Thessaloniki was also a Janissary stronghold where novice Janissaries were trained.

In June 1826, regular Ottoman soldiers attacked and destroyed the Janissary base in Thessaloniki while also killing over 10, 000 Janissary, an event known as The Auspicious Incident in Ottoman history.

Having been the first major city in Greece to fall to the occupying forces just two days after the German invasion, it was in Thessaloniki that the first Greek resistance group was formed ( under the name « Ελευθερία », Eleftheria, " Freedom ") as well as the first anti-Nazi newspaper in an occupied territory anywhere in Europe, also by the name Eleftheria.

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.

In the summer months Thessaloniki also experiences strong heat waves.

The Ministry for Macedonia and Thrace is also based in Thessaloniki, being that the city is the de facto capital of the Greek region of Macedonia.

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.

The terminology used in Thessaloniki and most parts of northern Greece is different, the word kalamaki is derided since the item is called consistently a souvlaki ; a joke suggests that any Athenian or other southerner visiting Thessaloniki asks for a kalamaki will be mockingly given a drinking straw ( also called " kalamaki ").

Bulgarians also laid claims on Thessaloniki and most of Macedonia.

They operate on the Kiato – Athens International Airport suburban line and as a stopping service on the mainline between Thessaloniki and Larissa, which is also advertised as a suburban service.

Initially a regional network based in Thessaloniki, ET3 also began broadcasting in Athens, and within a few years, in most other regions of the country.

It also owns a stake in Macedonia TV, a TV station with national coverage in Greece, based in Thessaloniki, and ANT1 FM Thessaloniki, a radio station in Thessaloniki.

The apple of discord: King George I of Greece and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Thessaloniki, December 1912.

Detail of Galerius attacking Narseh on the Arch and Tomb of Galerius # Arch of Galerius | Arch of Galerius at Thessaloniki, Greece, the city where Galerius carried out most of his administrative actions

The two monks later canonized as Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers from Thessaloniki, were sent to Great Moravia in 862 by the Byzantine emperor at the request of Knyaz ( Duke ) Rastislav, who wanted to weaken the dependence of his country on East Frankish priests.

After another victory at Giannitsa on, the Ottoman commander Hasan Tahsin Pasha surrendered Thessaloniki and its garrison of 26, 000 men to the Greeks on.

Judit with sister Sofia at Thessaloniki 1988

* 1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

* 1919 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( d. 1992 )

From the 1970s the opera has had a number of revivals, both as concert performances ( including Rome 1972, Concertgebouw ( Amsterdam ) 1977 and Konzerthaus, Vienna 1998 ) as well as fully staged productions at the Teatro Regio, Turin, in 2002 and the Thessaloniki Opera 2008.

It was at that time that the Ottoman administration of the city acquired an " official " face with the creation of the Command Post while a number of new public buildings were built in the eclectic style in order to project the European face both of Thessaloniki and the Ottoman Empire.

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, at all costs !).

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.

In 1915, during World War I, a large Allied expeditionary force established a base at Thessaloniki for operations against pro-German Bulgaria.

In 2011, the municipality of Thessaloniki had a budget of € 464. 33 million while the budget of 2012 stands at € 409. 00 million.

It is customary every year for the Prime Minister of Greece to announce his administration's policies on a number of issues, such as the economy, at the opening night of the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.

Proclus tries to implement the synod's decisions, and pope Sixtus III reminds the Illyrian bishops of their obligations to his vicar at Thessaloniki.

It was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Auckland Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival before going into limited release in the US.

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

), 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.

* IBM 1620 Model II at the Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum

Constantine was left with no choice but to turn east, and after defeating the Ottoman army at Giannitsa, he accepted the surrender of the city of Thessaloniki and of its Ottoman garrison on 27 October ( O. S.

As a young officer, he was positioned, along with his elder brother, in the service of his father ; and he accompanied the latter at the head of the Greek First Division during the capture of Thessaloniki in 1912.