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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki is the capital of , and with one million inhabitants, the second largest city in . It is a city with a continuous 3,000-year history, preserving relics of its Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman past and of its formerly dominant Jewish population.
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  • Type: City with 791,000 residents
  • Description: city in Macedonia, Greece
  • Also known as: “Salonica”, “Saloniki”, “Saloníki”, “Thessalonica”, and “Thessaloníkē”

Places of Interest

Highlights include White Tower of Thessaloniki and Hagios Demetrios.

Photo: Haneburger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the in northern .

Church
Photo: Vanbasten 23, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Saint Demetrius, or , is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki, dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum for the Macedonian Struggle is located in the centre of the city Thessaloniki in , . It occupies a neo-classical building designed by the renowned architect Ernst Ziller and built in 1893.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sykies, Thessaloniki and Polichni.

Suburb
Photo: EntaXoyas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sykies or Sykeai is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the , . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Suburb
is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the , , . Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.

Suburb
Photo: Georgios86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ampelokipoi is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the , , . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of , of which it is a municipal unit.

Thessaloniki

Latitude
40.639° or 40° 38′ 20″ north
Longitude
22.946° or 22° 56′ 46″ east
Population
791,000
IATA airport code
SKG
United Nations Location Codes
GR SKG and GR SNK
Open location code
8GG4JWQW+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 57554537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
734077
Wiki­data ID
Q17151
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Thessaloniki” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thessaloniki”
  • Albanian: “Selaniku”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θεσσαλονίκεια”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θεσσαλονίκη”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θετταλονίκη”
  • Arabic: “ثِسالونيكي”
  • Arabic: “سالونيك”
  • Aragonese: “Tesalonica”
  • Armenian: “Սալոնիկ”
  • Arpitan: “Salonica”
  • Asturian: “Salónica”
  • Asturian: “Tesalónica”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saloniki”
  • Balinese: “Thessaloniki”
  • Bashkir: “Салоники”
  • Basque: “Tesalonika”
  • Batak Toba: “Tessalonik”
  • Belarusian: “Салонікі”
  • Belarusian: “Тэсалёнікі”
  • Bengali: “থেসালোনিকি”
  • Bosnian: “Solun”
  • Breton: “Thessaloniki”
  • Bulgarian: “Солун”
  • Catalan: “Salònica”
  • Catalan: “Tessalònica”
  • Cebuano: “Dimos Thessaloniki”
  • Cebuano: “Thessaloníki”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەلانیک”
  • Chechen: “Салоникаш”
  • Chechen: “Салоники”
  • Chinese: “塞萨洛尼基”
  • Chinese: “塞薩洛尼卡”
  • Chinese: “塞薩洛尼基”
  • Chinese: “塞薩羅尼基”
  • Chinese: “帖撒羅尼迦”
  • Chinese: “第撒隆尼基”
  • Chinese: “薩洛尼卡”
  • Chinese: “薩羅尼加”
  • Church Slavic: “Ѳєссалонїка”
  • Chuvash: “Салоники”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Selânik”
  • Croatian: “Solun”
  • Czech: “Salonica”
  • Czech: “Salonika”
  • Czech: “Saloniki”
  • Czech: “Soluň”
  • Czech: “Tesalonika”
  • Czech: “Thessaloniki”
  • Danish: “Thessaloniki”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Selanik”
  • Dutch: “Saloniki”
  • Dutch: “Thessaloniki”
  • Eastern Mari: “Салоники”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالونيك”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلانيك”
  • Esperanto: “Tesaloniko”
  • Estonian: “Thessaloníki”
  • Faroese: “Thessaloniki”
  • Finnish: “Thessaloniki”
  • French: “Salonique”
  • French: “Thessalonique”
  • Galician: “Tesalónica”
  • Georgian: “სალონიკი”
  • German: “Saloniki”
  • German: “Thessaloniki”
  • Gothic: “𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ftohomana”
  • Greek: “Ftohomána”
  • Greek: “I Protevoussa ton Prosfigon”
  • Greek: “I Protévoussa ton Prosfígon”
  • Greek: “Θεσσαλονίκη”
  • Greek: “Σαλονικη”
  • Greek: “Σαλονίκη”
  • Gujarati: “થેસાલોનિકી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thiap-sat-lò-nì-kâ”
  • Hebrew: “סלוניקה”
  • Hebrew: “סלוניקי”
  • Hebrew: “תסלוניקה”
  • Hindi: “थेसालोनिकी”
  • Hungarian: “Szaloniki”
  • Hungarian: “Theszaloníki”
  • Iban: “Thessaloniki”
  • Icelandic: “Þessaloníka”
  • Icelandic: “Þessalóníka”
  • Ido: “Thesaloniki”
  • Indonesian: “Thessaloniki”
  • Interlingue: “Thessaloniki”
  • Irish: “Teasaloinicé”
  • Italian: “Salonicco”
  • Italian: “Tessalonica”
  • Japanese: “テッサロニキ”
  • Javanese: “Thesaloniki”
  • Kannada: “ತೆಸಲೋನಿಕಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಥೆಸ್ಸಲೋನಿಕಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Салоники”
  • Kirghiz: “Салоники”
  • Korean: “테살로니키”
  • Kurdish: “Selanîk”
  • Kurdish: “Tesalonîkî”
  • Ladino: “Salonik”
  • Ladino: “Selanik”
  • Latin: “Thessalonica”
  • Latvian: “Saloniki”
  • Limburgan: “Thessaloniki”
  • Lithuanian: “Salonikai”
  • Lombard: “Salunich”
  • Low German: “Thessaloniki”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thessaloniki”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Săruna”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sãrunã”
  • Macedonian: “Солун”
  • Malagasy: “Tesalonika”
  • Malagasy: “Tesalônika”
  • Malay: “Thessaloniki”
  • Malayalam: “തെസ്സലോനികി”
  • Maltese: “Tessaloniki”
  • Maltese: “Thessaloniki”
  • Marathi: “थेसालोनिकी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Táik-sák-lò̤-nà̤-giă”
  • Moksha: “Тэсалоники”
  • Mongolian: “Салоники”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طيسالونيك”
  • Northern Frisian: “Thessaloniki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thessaloniki”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thessaloníki”
  • Norwegian: “Thessaloniki”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tessalonica”
  • Ossetian: “Салоники”
  • Papiamento: “Tesalonika”
  • Persian: “سالونیک”
  • Piemontese: “Salonich”
  • Polish: “Saloniki”
  • Polish: “Tessalonika”
  • Pontic: “Θεσσαλονίκη”
  • Portuguese: “Salonica”
  • Portuguese: “Salónica”
  • Portuguese: “Salônica”
  • Portuguese: “Tessalónica”
  • Portuguese: “Tessalônica”
  • Portuguese: “Thessaloniki”
  • Romanian: “Salonic”
  • Russian: “Салоники”
  • Russian: “Селаник”
  • Russian: “Солун”
  • Russian: “Солунь”
  • Russian: “Терма”
  • Russian: “Фессалоники”
  • Scots: “Thessaloniki”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Thessaloniki”
  • Serbian: “Solun”
  • Serbian: “Солун”
  • Serbian: “Тесалоники”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Solun”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thessalonica”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Солун”
  • Sicilian: “Salunicchi”
  • Sicilian: “Saluniccu”
  • Silesian: “Salůńiki”
  • Sinhala: “තෙස්සලෝනිකි”
  • Slovak: “Salonica”
  • Slovak: “Salonika”
  • Slovak: “Solún”
  • Slovak: “Tesalonika”
  • Slovak: “Tesaloniky”
  • Slovak: “Thessaloniki”
  • Slovenian: “Solun”
  • Slovenian: “Tesalonika”
  • Slovenian: “Thermas”
  • Somali: “Salaaniik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سلانیک”
  • Spanish: “Salonica”
  • Spanish: “Salónica”
  • Spanish: “Tesalónica”
  • Swahili: “Thesalonike”
  • Swedish: “Thessaloniki”
  • Swedish: “Thessaloníki”
  • Swiss German: “Thessaloniki”
  • Tagalog: “Tesalonica”
  • Tajik: “Салоникӣ”
  • Talysh: “Saloniki”
  • Tamil: “தேசாலோனிக்கி”
  • Tatar: “Сәләник”
  • Telugu: “థెస్సలానీకీ”
  • Thai: “เทสซาโลนีกี”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Thessaloniki”
  • Turkish: “Selanik”
  • Turkish: “Selânik”
  • Uighur: “سەلانىك”
  • Ukrainian: “Салоніки”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sołun”
  • Urdu: “تھیسالونیکی”
  • Uzbek: “Saloniki”
  • Venetian: “Salonico”
  • Veps: “Salonikid”
  • Vietnamese: “Thessaloniki”
  • Vlaams: “Thessaloniki”
  • Vlax Romani: “Thessaloniki”
  • Volapük: “Thessaloniki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thessaloniki”
  • Welsh: “Thessaloníci”
  • Western Armenian: “Թեսաղոնիկէ”
  • Western Armenian: “Սելանիկ”
  • Western Frisian: “Tessaloniki”
  • Western Panjabi: “سالونیکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞萨洛尼基”
  • Yiddish: “סאלאניקי”
  • Yiddish: “סאַלאניקי”
  • Yoruba: “Tessalonika”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞薩洛尼基”
  • Yue Chinese: “帖撒羅尼迦”
  • “ma tomo Tesaloniki”
  • “Salunech”
  • “Sãrunã”
  • “Thessaloníki”
  • “Θεσσαλονίκη”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Thessaloniki”. Photo: Dockashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.