Thessaloníki

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The Byzantine Church of Ayios Dimitrios in Thessaloniki, Greece, features a brick facade with arched windows, a bell tower, and a courtyard with potted plants.

Thessaloníki, Greece

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Large crowd of people fills a city street during a protest in Thessaloniki, Greece, with several cars surrounded by demonstrators and banners visible above the crowd.

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Official Site of the City of Thessaloniki, Greece.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 20, 2026
	Article revised.	J.E. Luebering	Apr 27, 2026
	Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 30, 2025
	Add new Web site: Academia - Institutions and Culture in Thessaloniki and the Role of Local Government: From Dimitria to Labattoir.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 23, 2024
	Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Salonika.	Gloria Lotha	May 31, 2024
	Map added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 14, 2023
	Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Thessalonica, Greece.	Emily Rodriguez	Feb 09, 2023
	Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Salonica, Greece.	Emily Rodriguez	Nov 25, 2022
	Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 01, 2022
	Add new Web site: In2Greece - Thessaloniki.	Aakanksha Gaur	Aug 30, 2022
	Corrected display issue.	Jeff Wallenfeldt	Aug 30, 2022
	Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Thessalonica, Greece.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 01, 2020
	Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Salonika, Greece.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 01, 2020
	Population data updated.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Aug 09, 2018
	Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Thessaloniki, Greece.	Grace Young	Mar 05, 2013
	Article revised and updated.	Richard Pallardy	Apr 29, 2009
	Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Salonica (Thessalon�ki).	Shiveta Singh	Jul 15, 2008
	Added new Web site: Information Processing Lab - The City of Thessaloniki.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 10, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 27, 1999