Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Macedonia. It has a population of over 325,000 in the municipality and over 1 million in the larger metropolitan area. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf on the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea and is bounded to the west by the Axios River delta. Thessaloniki was historically known as the co-capital of the Eastern Roman Empire alongside Constantinople.
Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Macedonia. It has a population of over 325,000 in the municipality and over 1 million in the larger metropolitan area. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf on the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea and is bounded to the west by the Axios River delta. Thessaloniki was historically known as the co-capital of the Eastern Roman Empire alongside Constantinople.
Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Macedonia. It has a population of over 325,000 in the municipality and over 1 million in the larger metropolitan area. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf on the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea and is bounded to the west by the Axios River delta. Thessaloniki was historically known as the co-capital of the Eastern Roman Empire alongside Constantinople.
Thessaloniki (Greek: , Thessalonki, [esalonici] ( listen)), also familiarly
known as Thessalonica or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and
the capital of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.[3][4] Its nickname is (Symprotvousa), literally "the co-capital",[5] a reference to its historical status as the (Symvasilvousa) or "co-reigning" city of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, alongside Constantinople.[6] Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Axios/Vardar. The municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical center, had a population of 325,182 in 2011,[1] while the Thessaloniki Urban Area had a population of 788,952[1] and the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area had 1,012,297 inhabitants in 2011.[1]