Thessaloniki (grc)

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki ranks 210th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Delhi, Nashville, Tennessee, and Bogotá. Memorable people born in Thessaloniki include Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and Galla Placidia. Memorable people who died in Thessaloniki include Licinius, George I of Greece, and Demetrius of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Thessaloniki is located in Greece.

Thessaloniki is a city in northern Greece. The nation’s second-largest, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, it is the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek as i Symprotévousa, literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Read more on Wikipedia