The Greeks kept the branches in Thessaloniki, Smyrna and Alexandria.

Denmark had no club team invited in the 1900 Olympics and the 1904 Olympics, but then received a special invitation for the 1906 Olympics, to compete against 1 Greek club team ( Athens ) and 2 club teams from the Ottoman Empire ( Smyrna and Thessaloniki ).

Smyrna and Thessaloniki, both then cities in the Ottoman Empire, played off instead.

In 1906 teams from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France withdrew from an unofficial competition and left Denmark, Smyrna ( one Armenian, two Frenchmen and eight Britons ), Athens and Thessaloniki Music Club to compete.

KKE and its organisations, although small in numbers, continue operating in all Greek major cities, especially industrial areas such as Athens, Piraeus, Patra, Thessaly and Volos, Thessaloniki, Kavala and elsewhere.

There are also non-direct connections to and from Athens, Thessaloniki and Ioannina although during July and August there is a daily direct bus connection to Ioannina.

The main television station based in Komotini is R Channel although other stations broadcast from the city, namely Delta from neighbouring Alexandroupoli and ET3 ( the northern branch of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation ) from Thessaloniki.

A similar development in the cult of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki has been observed ; although always described as a soldier, depictions of him were in civilian dress for centuries until around the turn of the millennium, after which he is nearly always shown fully armed.

Justinian himself ordered the foundation of the city by law in 535, establishing the Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima, making it at the same time the capital of the prefecture of Illyricum instead of Thessaloniki ( although this is disputed among historians ).

Traditional historiography stipulates that many Slavs settled in the hinterland of Thessaloniki, however, this migration was actually on a much smaller scale than previously thought.

Prior to the Kallikratis reform, the Thessaloniki Urban Area was made up of twice as many municipalities, considerably smaller in size, which created bureaucratic problems.

From the first years of the Byzantine Empire, Thessaloniki was considered the second city in the Empire after Constantinople, both in terms of wealth and size.

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.

The plan was for a concentrated attack against the Serbian army across the Vardar plain to neutralize it and to capture north Macedonia, together with a less concentrated one against the Greek Army near Thessaloniki, which had approximately half the size of the Serbian in order to capture the city and south Macedonia.

In an attempt to resolve the difficulty and slowness of transmitting orders to the frontier, the new capitals of the Tetrarchic era were all much closer to the Empire's frontiers than Rome had been: Trier sat on the Rhine, Sirmium and Serdica were close to the Danube, Thessaloniki was on the route leading eastward, and Nicomedia and Antioch were important points in dealings with Persia.

* PIM " Ivan Milutinović ", Belgrade, Serbia ; Morava-Vardar ( Axios ) Navigation Route ( About 1, 200 km shorter route ( three days shorter time of navigation ) from Belgrade to Port of Thessaloniki than across Danube, Black Sea and Agean Sea.

Under these circumstances, rather than managing to put together a force and advancing on Thessaloniki, middle-ranking pro-junta officers neutralised and arrested his royalist generals and took command of their units, which subsequently put together a force advancing on Kavala to arrest the king.

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.

* PIM " Ivan Milutinović ", Belgrade, Serbia ; Morava-Vardar ( Axios ) Navigation Route ( About 1, 200 km shorter route ( three days shorter time of navigation ) from Belgrade to Port of Thessaloniki than across Danube, Black Sea and Agean Sea.

* PIM " Ivan Milutinović ", Belgrade, Serbia ; Morava-Vardar ( Axios ) Navigation Route ( About 1, 200 km shorter route ( three days shorter time of navigation ) from Belgrade to Port of Thessaloniki than across Danube, Black Sea and Agean Sea.

The derby against Olympiacos is the fiercest, representing more than any other, the animosity between Athens and Thessaloniki.

The tower today, other than its status as a modern monument of the city and its use by Cosmote, opens up for events and exhibitions during the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair, while a revolving restaurant operates year round on the top floor.

In addition to two Academy Award nominations, Orlando won more than 25 international awards, including the Felix awarded by the European Film Academy for the best Young European Film of 1993, and first prizes at St Petersburg, Thessaloniki and other festivals.

Kozani has warm to hot summers and cool winters, cooler than Thessaloniki, the mountainous, the western and the eastern portion receives cold winters and features snow.

Thessaloniki passed out of Byzantine hands in 1204, when Constantinople was captured by the forces of the Fourth Crusade and incorporated the city and its surrounding territories in the Kingdom of Thessalonica — which then became the largest vassal of the Latin Empire.

In 1888 Thessaloniki was connected to Central Europe via rail through Belgrade, Monastir in 1893 and Constantinople in 1896.

Theodoros was flogged, and, together with ten other monks, banished to Thessaloniki, while Platon was imprisoned in Constantinople.

Towards the end of the war he was offered a post within the YMCA ’ s educational work programme as musical director and he set off for Salonica ( present day Thessaloniki, Greece ) and Constantinople ( later renamed Istanbul ) in 1918.

The migrations to Constantinople and Thessaloniki, where Jewish refugees had settled after the expulsion from Spain, as well as to Italy, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, and to Vienna and Timișoara, continued to the middle of the 18th century.

With the Bulgarians directing the bulk of their force towards Constantinople, capture of Thessaloniki would ensure that the railway axis between these two main cities was lost to the Turks, who would then suffer total loss of logistics and supplies and severe impairment of command and control capability.

Moses Almosnino was born Thessaloniki 1515-died Constantinople abt 1580.

Due to the location of Christoupolis, the city experienced an economic flourish, securing the contact between Constantinople and Thessaloniki.

In 1912 Bulgaria's national aspiration, as this had been expressed through Tsar Ferdinand and the military leadership around him, exceeded the provisions of what was considered in 1878 as maximalistic, Treaty of San Stefano, since it included both Eastern and Western Thrace and all Macedonia with Thessaloniki, Edirne and Constantinople.

Even worse, the effort in capturing Thrace and Constantinople ultimately caused the loss of the major part of Macedonia including Thessaloniki and that could not be easily accepted, leading the Bulgarian military leadership around Tsar Ferdinand to decide upon a war against its former allies.

A conflict arose when Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise, allegedly acting under pressure from his mistress Zoe Zaoutzaina and her father Stylianos Zaoutzes, moved the marketplace for Bulgarian goods from Constantinople to Thessaloniki, where the Bulgarian merchants were heavily taxed.

In the following years, Simeon's forces were engaged in the northwestern Byzantine provinces, around Drač ( Durrës ) and Thessaloniki, but did not make a move against Constantinople.

As the Greek state of Byzantium gradually emerged as a successor state to the Roman Empire, Macedonia became one of its most important provinces as it was close to the Empire's capital ( Constantinople ) and included its second largest city ( Thessaloniki ).

Byzantium's territory was fragmented mostly among the capital at Constantinople and its Thracian environs, the city of Thessaloniki and its immediate surroundings, and the Despotate of the Morea in the Peloponnese.

Following the loss of Alexandria and Antioch to the Arabs, Thessaloniki became the Byzantine Empire's second largest city, called the " co-regent " ( symbasileuousa ), second only to Constantinople.

Economic activity declined to a great extent ( mainly because trade flowed towards cities like Thessaloniki, İzmir, and Constantinople ), and the population declined, at least in the lowland areas ( Ottoman censuses did not include many people in mountainous areas ).

Venetian boats ran alongside the East coast of the Adriatic Sea with stops in Zara, Dyrrachium and Corfou, then around the Peloponese with Koroni and up the Aegean and Cyclades with stops in Naxos, Euboea and Thessaloniki to Constantinople, or via Crete, Alexandria and Syria to Egypt.

For Jews of the rest of the Ottoman Empires, notably Constantinople and Selanik ( Thessaloniki ), see: Category: Ottoman Jews.

A dioecism was undertaken for similar reasons, such as the settling of new and independent communities within territory of Constantinople abandoned due to a contraction of population, or the contraction of Thessaloniki out of its former neighborhoods outside the city walls due to the occupation of the countryside by the Turks.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is styled " His All-Holiness ", and so is, exceptionally, the Metropolitan Bishop of Thessaloniki.

Subsequently, another 40 schools opened across Greece and Asia Minor: in Skopje, Philipopolis, Andrianople, Sozopolis, Anchialos, Constantinople, Aenos, Serres, Giannitsa, Korytsa, Vlachokleisoura, Veria, Thessaloniki, Kalipolis, Kozani, Hieromerio, Tirnavo, Trikala, Paramytha, Agrafa, Arta, Karpenisi, Varnakova, Aetoliko, Thebes, Chalkida, Argos, Nafplio, Koroni, Monemvasia, Methoni, Kythera, Kerkyra, Zakynthos, Chandax ( Heraklion in Crete ), Rodes, Kos, Patmos, S. Lemonias and Myrtinisiotisses ( Lesvos ), Mykonos, Naxos.