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| | Salonica, Greece |
 | | Salonica (officially Thessaloníki), Greece's second largest city and capital of Greek Macedonia, lies at the head of the Thermaic Gulf (Gulf of Salonica), the most northwesterly gulf in the Aegean, near the mouth of the important river Axiós (Vardar) and on the foothills of the Khortiátis range (1,200m/3,900ft). |
 | | In summer the weather is not infrequently oppressively hot, since the area of water in the Gulf of Salonica is too small to exert a moderating influence. |
 | | Of the many great fires in Salonica's history (1890, 1894, 1898, 1910, etc.) the most devastating was the one in 1917, which destroyed large areas of the city (including a number of old churches and mosques) and left 80,000 people homeless. |
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