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Extract from the Thessalonki (Salonica) Travel Guides:
Greece's pleasant second city and the administrative centre for the two northern regions,
THESSALONKI
- or Salonica, as the city was known in western Europe until well into the twentieth century - has a very different feel to Athens: more Balkan-European and modern, less Middle Eastern and villagey. Situated at the head of an eponymous gulf, a horseshoe-shaped inner recess of the Thermakos bight, it also seems more open.
The "modern" quality of Thessalonki is due largely to a disastrous
1917 fire
which levelled most of the old plaster houses along a labyrinth of Ottoman lanes, including...
read the whole Thessalonki (Salonica) Travel Guides...
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