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The town's current population is 10, 447 citizens ; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki.
The city lies 710 meters above sea level, 15 kilometers north-west of the artificial lake Polyfytos, 120 km south-west of Thessaloniki, between the mountains Pieria, Vermio, Vourinos and Askio.
* Motorway 25 ( A25 ) is a branch of the A2 ( Egnatia Odos ) and lies between Thessaloniki to the Greek – Bulgarian border crossing, via Serres ( taking over parts of the GR-12 ); and between Thessaloniki towards Nea Moudania, referred to in this part of its section as the Thessaloniki – Nea Moudania Motorway or Chalkidiki Motorway.
Calafat lies on the river corridor VII-Danube and the pan-European corridor IV which starts in Germany and ends in Istanbul and Thessaloniki.
It lies SW of Athens, about SE of Kyparissia and GR-9, about SSE of Pyrgos, about SW of Tripoli, about W of Sparta, NW of Areopoli and about E of Messene, it is also south of Patras and 715 750 kilometres ( 444 mi ) south of Thessaloniki.

Thessaloniki and on
Greece's main forces attacked from Thessaly into Macedonia through the Sarantaporo strait and after capturing Thessaloniki on 12 November ( on 26 October 1912, O. S.
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
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.
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.
Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis scored a major success for Greek morale on 31 October: he sailed his torpedo boat No. 11, under the cover of night, into the harbor of Thessaloniki, sank the old Ottoman ironclad battleship Feth-i Bülend and escaped unharmed.
* 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius.
It grew to be an important trade-hub located on the Via Egnatia, the road connecting Dyrrhachium with Byzantium, which facilitated trade between Thessaloniki and great centers of commerce such as Rome and Byzantium.
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.
The Venetians held Thessaloniki until it was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II on 29 March 1430.
Most of the old center of the city was destroyed by the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917, which started accidentally by an unattended kitchen fire on 18 August 1917.
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.
The importance of Thessaloniki to Nazi Germany can be demonstrated by the fact that, initially, Hitler had planned to incorporate it directly in the Third Reich ( that is, make it a part of Germany ) and not have it controlled by a puppet state such as the Hellenic State or an ally of Germany ( Thessaloniki had been promised to Yugoslavia as a reward for joining the Axis on 25 March 1941 ).
According to an article on The New York Times, the way in which the present mayor of Thessaloniki is treating the city's debt and oversized administration problems could be used as a paradigm by Greece's central government for a successful strategy in dealing with these problems.
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.
It passes through Gostivar, Skopje and into Veles, crosses the Greek border near Gevgelija, Polykastro and Axioupoli (" town on the Axiós "), before emptying into the Aegean Sea in Central Macedonia west of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.
For that purpose, Cyril and his brother Methodius started to translate religious literature to Old Church Slavonic, allegedly based on Slavic dialects spoken in the hinterland of their home-town, Thessaloniki, in the region of Macedonia.
" The emperor died, poisoned, it is said, by Oberto di Biandrate, ex-regent of Thessaloniki, on 11 June 1216.

Thessaloniki and northern
Italy occupied Vlorë, and Serbia and Montenegro occupied parts of northern Albania until a Central Powers offensive scattered the Serbian army, which was evacuated by the French to Thessaloniki.
It is an influential city for the northern parts of the country and is the capital of the Central Macedonia region and the Thessaloniki regional unit.
The most-visited region of Greece is that of Central Macedonia in northern Greece, near some of the most popular attractions in the country such as Halkidiki, Mount Olympus, Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great, and Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki.
Since Athens was effectively in the hands of the junta militarily, Constantine decided to fly to the small northern city of Kavala, east of Thessaloniki.
The vague plan he and his advisors had conceived was to form a unit that would advance to Thessaloniki ( Greece's second biggest city and unofficial capital of northern Greece ) and take it.
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 ").
Another difference between southern and northern Greece is that " souvlaki ap ' ola " ( souvlaki " with everything ") typically includes tzatziki sauce in Athens, unlike Thessaloniki.
The Arch of Galerius ( Gr.: αψίδα &# 32 ; του &# 32 ; Γαλερίου )( or Kamara, Gr.: καμάρα ) and the Rotunda ( ροτόντα ) are neighboring early 4th-century monuments in the city of Thessaloniki, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece.
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.
The eight major HAF installations are located in Larisa, Nea Anchialos ( west of Volos ), Elefsis, west of Athens, Thessaloniki, Tanagra, north of Athens, Souda Bay, Araxos in the northern Peloponnese, and Andravida.
A native of the northern Greek island of Thasos, Vassilikos grew up in Thessaloniki, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist.
In 1996, Zisis Vryzas was signed by the most popular northern Greek Club PAOK FC and moved in the capital of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki, where he enjoyed great popularity among PAOK fans for his power, determination and devotion with which they describe his game and for scoring a handful of very important goals.
Tsikoulas is also a family name-of unknown origin or meaning-mainly used in northern Greece ( particularly in the areas of Thessaloniki and Chalkidiki ).
Today, ancient Crestonia is comprehended within the regional units of Kilkis and Thessaloniki ( northern part ) in Greece.
Apollonia, like Dyrrachium further north, was an important port on the Illyrian coast as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace.
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.
The island's Greek Orthodox diaspora settled primarily in New Marmara, the island of Euboea, in Greece and in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
Koleda is also celebrated across northern Greece by the Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, in areas from Florina to Thessaloniki, where it is called Koleda ( Κόλιντα, Κόλιαντα ) or Koleda Babo ( Κόλιντα Μπάμπω ) which means " Koleda Grandmother " in Slavic.

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