Thessaloniki, Greece is the capital of Greek Macedonia and the second largest city in Greece, to Athens. It is an important cultural, industrial, commercial and educational center, and the port is one of the largest in the country. Thessaloniki is also a hub of transport in Greece, with an international airport, Greece Lines, the ferry transporting passengers to the islands, and many trains and buses options, in order to stay in the campaign. Thessaloniki and the hip chic, with boutiques and a number of wonderful restaurants and Greek ouzeries offers delicious food and catering. These can be in flight Thessaloniki often find a good business in flight through various Internet search engines, and numerous charter flights to the United Kingdom offer cheap fares in Thessaloniki on the right of return of the surplus places based on services.

  Thessaloniki, Greece has two major Greek festivals and events in the international trade of Thessaloniki and the exhibition of Thessaloniki International Film Festival. More than 300000 people visit the fair every year, and he directs the course of ten days each September. The Thessaloniki Film Festival is one of the most important film festivals, not only in the region, but throughout the world. Moreover, it is 10 days and takes place each year from mid-November. Thessaloniki, the largest student population in the country, mainly due to the fact that two state universities, including the Aristotle University, the largest in Greece.

  The history of Thessaloniki, as all Europe, is long and complex. Thessaloniki, Greece in the year 315 BC, and the name of the city after cassandi King, the wife of Thessaloniki, sister of Alexander the Great. Thessaloniki was initially a city in the kingdom of Macedonia, and shortly after its founding, has been a parliament representing the king. In the 2nd Century BC, the Roman epoch in the history of Thessaloniki began with the fall of Macedonia EN 168 BC. And it will soon be the hub for trade within the Roman Empire, due to its location along the trade routes between Europe and Asia.

  The Romans would Thessaloniki one of the countries, provinces in the region, the port and before they have served until the city from the 18th Century. Today you can still find vestiges of Roman port, near the Axios River. With the 1st Century AD, a Jewish settlement itself in Thessaloniki, and the town was also an important center of the Christian world. One of the most important of the early Christian missionaries, Paul of Tarsus, which have a significant role in creating the foundations for a Christian church in the city. The main attractions of the city today, the times of Macedonia and the Roman history to understand Thessaloniki and the Arc de galley grave, and the Church of St. Demetrius. St. Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki who died as martyrs in a Roman prison under the reign of the emperor Maximian, was the anti-Christian.

  As the Roman Empire began his department, the Byzantine era in the history of Thessaloniki begins, and the city is important, the second of Constantinople. Thessaloniki experiences with their fair share of the hubbub over this period, but also influenced by electronic reverse auctions surrounding the city allows to unfold. 620 AD, an earthquake damaged a large part of the city, and shortly after the attacks of the Slavs should not be successful in the city. The 10-12 centuries of our era, Thessaloniki enjoyment of prosperity and peace over. Finally back from Thessaloniki to change and by hand in a time of falling under the control of the Latin kingdom that are recovered by Byzantium. Many Byzantine churches and the frescoes are now in the city and are worth a visit.

  In the 15th Century, the Ottoman Empire would be the control of Thessaloniki, and the Muslims and Jews to begin to live in the city more. The Ottomans would be welcome on Sepharditen Jews expelled from Spain in an attempt to influence in the Greek city. Ultimately, however, is the Greek army would the Ottomans in 1912 and the control of Thessaloniki, that lose in the Bulgarian army one day later. The city remains in a kind of vacuum, until on 10 August 1913, when the Treaty of Bucharest brought under control in Greek. Thessaloniki, Greece would be largely destroyed on 18 August 1917 by a fire by French soldiers. The plan for the reconstruction, which contribute to modern metropolis, today in Thessaloniki.

  Thessaloniki, Greece, there are numerous museums and benchmarks reflect the past. It is a wonderful starting point to the great beaches of Halkidiki Greece and other attractions in the region of Greek Macedonia. Thessaloniki hotels are among the best in Greece.