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	Thessaloniki - Phantis
		It is also the capital of the Thessaloniki prefecture and the capital of the EU region (or, synonymously, Greek periphery) of Central Macedonia.
		Thessaloniki developed rapidly and as early as the 2nd century BC the first Hellenistic walls were built, forming a large square.
		Thessaloniki's acropolis, located in the northern hills, was built in 55 BC after Thracian raids in the city's outskirts for security reasons.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Thessaloniki (1955 words)

	UJC - Jewish Week: The Rich Rewards Of Greece’s Second City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As an urban center, Thessaloniki is far overshadowed by Athens, the capital, and as a coastal vacation spot, it lacks the whitewashed Mediterranean charm of countless destinations further south.
		Thessaloniki is steaming hot and surprisingly untouristy, though the two are probably unrelated, judging by the crowds at the Acropolis further south.
		Inside is a history museum with a collection of sculptures, frescoes, mosaic fragments and icons that illustrate the sometimes-bloody history of the region.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=187474 (913 words)

	Thessaloniki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thessaloniki, (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη, Turkish: Selânik, Slavic: Solun (Солун), Aromanian: Săruna, Ladino: Selanik), is Greece's second-largest city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia.
		The Thessaloniki urban area curves round the Thermaic Gulf for approximately 17 km; it comprises 13 municipalities and according to the 2001 census it has a population of 809,457.
		Thessaloniki was the main "prize" of the First Balkan War, as a result of which it was reunified with Greece on October 26, 1912.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thessaloniki (5180 words)

	A Short History of the Jews of Greece:Ancient Times to the 1940's
		Jewish presence in Greece dates at least to the mention by Strabo in approximately 85 B.C.E. that Jews could be found in all the cities of the eastern Mediterranean (VII 7 4).
		The Jewish community of Thebes was so closely identified with the silk industry that Roger II of Sicily (1095-1154) forcibly moved almost the entire community to Sicily to introduce the silk industry in his Norman kingdom.
		By 1939 the Thessaloniki Jewish community had fallen from approximately 90,000 at the turn of the century to 56,000.
	www.greecetravel.com /jewishhistory/ancient.html (2015 words)

	Greece Travel: Thessaloniki Guide
		Thessaloniki was the second most important city of the Byzantine Empire, next to Constantinople, and is full of beautiful examples of Byzantine art and architecture.
		In the 15th Century Thessaloniki became a haven for Jews exiled from Spain, who became an important part of the culture, until they were sent to the concentration camps during the Nazi occupation, thus ending a period of four hundred years of Jewish influence both socially and economically.
		Thessaloniki may be one of the most unique and interesting cities in the world and Mazower has captured it.
	www.greecetravel.com /thessaloniki (1284 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Greece
		The Jewish revolt, led by the Hasmonean Judas Maccabee, defeated the Seleucid armies and recaptured the temple.
		A Jewish community in Delos was described by Josephus (38-100 B.C.) and in inscriptions found in a first century synagogue discovered on the island.
		The Archaeological Museums of Heraklion and Rethymno have Jewish gravestones and a marble stone with a Star of David.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Greece.html (5467 words)

	Thessaloniki - Encyklopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thessaloniki is a major economic, industrial, commercial and cultural urban center as well as a transportational hub for southeastern Europe.
		The commercial port of Thessaloniki is of a strategic importance for Greece.
		Thessaloniki was the main prize of the First Balkan War of 1912, during which it was captured by Greece on 26 October 1912, which is now a local holiday.
	en.science24.org /w,Thessaloniki (3193 words)

	Views and voices recall Greek past
		The first Jewish newspaper, "El Lunar," was published in 1864 in Ladino; during the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century, we learn, 35 of the 73 newspapers published in Salonika are in Ladino.
		Erika Perahia Zemour, the director of the Jewish museum in Salonika, is the daughter of parents who stayed, two of the now less than 50 Holocaust survivors in Salonika.
		The exhibits are compelling, incorporating pictures, objects and words to convey the vast richness of Jewish life in the city, both the height of its grandeur and the depth of its loss.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/030926/views.shtml (1298 words)

	ThessalonIki: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki-Museo Djidio Di Salonik
		Leave Thessaloniki in the north and drive toward...outlasted the First World War, Thessaloniki at last became part of Greece...Kemal Ataturk, who was born in Thessaloniki, succeeded in cleansing all...
		383,967), capital of Thessaloniki prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia; on the Gulf of Thessaloniki, an inlet of the Aegean Sea, at the neck of the Khalkidhiki Peninsula.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/thessaloniki.jsp (1988 words)

	Travel Guide to Greece: Thessaloniki
		Thessaloniki was founded by Kassandros in 316 BCE on the place where ancient Therme once stood and because of its location over the centuries it became an important commercial, political, and cultural center of the Balkan peninsula.
		Six years later Thessaloniki became host to a great number of the one million Greeks who left Asia Minor as part of the population exchange agreed at the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
		Thessaloniki is the second most important exhibition place of Byzantine monuments after Istanbul.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /travel-guide/thessaloniki.html (1313 words)

	The Jewish neighbourhoods in modern Thessaloniki
		Map of the Jewish neighbourhoods of Thessaloniki before 1917, drawn by Albert Narr, 1500-1917, Thessaloniki, Museum of the Jewish Community.
		The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish settlers swelled Thessaloniki's population at the end of the 15th century.
		In some cases, the Jewish districts took their name from the nearest synagogue, in others they mapped the Community's lost homelands: Pulia (Apulia), Castilia, Calabria, Lisbon, and so forth.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/C3.1.1.3.html (124 words)

	Thessaloniki guide, Makedonia by SuperbGreece.com
		Thessaloniki is one of the oldest cities in Europe.
		The Thessaloniki International Film Festival held in November is one of the principal film festivals in Europe, that brings interesting and glamorous crowds to its premieres.
		Thessaloniki (or Salonica, as it is also known) is 23 centuries old.
	www.superbgreece.com /Makedonia/Thessaloniki/index.htm (2059 words)

	MUSEUMS OF THESSALONIKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Of the most important exhibits in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki are some of the items found in the Royal Tombs of Vergina, those unique items are of the rarest items ever found in archaeological excavations.
		The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle founded in 1982, houses costumes, uniforms, weapons and personal items of the heroes of the war for the liberation of Macedonia (1870- 1912).
		Other important museums in the city are: the Museum of Byzantine art, the Folklore museum, The Technical Museum, The Athletics museum, The Macedonian museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of ancient and Byzantine musical instruments, The Jewish museum, Museum of Photography etc.
	hellonet.teithe.gr /EN/mouseia.htm (353 words)

	Worldwide Museum List
		University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.
		The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
		Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv.
	www.hightechscience.org /worldwide_museum_list.htm (985 words)

	Jewish Community of Thessaloniki (Salonika)
		The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki is a Legal Entity under Public Law. It comes under the jurisdiction of the Ministries of Education and Religion, according to Law No. 2456/1920, “On the Jewish Communities”. It is accountable to the State and submits its budget and accounts for approval.
		During the Nazi occupation the Monasteriotes’ Synagogue was the center of the ghetto that was created in the inner city. When the entire Jewish population was deported to the death camps, the Synagogue was used by the Red Cross as a warehouse, thus avoiding destruction by the Nazis.
		The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki was honored by the Academy of Athens and the Rotary Clubs of Thessaloniki for this historic gesture.
	www.sephardicstudies.org /thes3.html (1842 words)

	PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI - EXHIBITIONS - PREVIOUS - GLANCES AT THE CITY -
		Using the boundaries of a hundred years, this presentation aims at narrating a course of evolution of the city as well as photography; a course that starts from an era of intense changes for both the city and the art of photography and reaches a present of necessary reassessments.
		For Thessaloniki the temporal limit of the year 1900 marks the commencement of a period of radical changes that will agitate a historical continuity of centuries.
		Similarly, an effort is being made to present specific advances in the history of photography which led to diversifications of its applications and aesthetics, thus contributing to the constant reshaping of the historic image of the city.
	www.thmphoto.gr /article/archive/122 (455 words)

	Thessaloníki
		Thessaloniki, Panoramic view of the city of Thessaloniki from the place Kranos of the Kedrinos Hill (Seich Sou) [Source]
		It is also the capital of the Thessaloniki Prefecture [2] and the capital of the EU region (or, synonymously, Greek periphery) of Central Macedonia.
		Thessaloniki became the Cultural capital of Europe for 1997.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Cities/Thessaloniki.html (2091 words)

	Jewish History Museum (aka Museum of the Jewish Presence in Thessaloniki) \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Thessaloniki \| ...
		Jewish History Museum (aka Museum of the Jewish Presence in Thessaloniki)
		Thessaloniki Jews established the city's first printing press in the early 1500s and founded the city's first newspaper, El Lunar, in 1865.
		The community thrived under the Ottoman Empire, and in 1900, 80,000 of Thessaloniki's 173,000 inhabitants were Jews.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/thessaloniki/A28334.html (306 words)

	Art Museums
		Historisch Museum Rotterdam - Schielandshuis - Welkom in het Schielandshuis, hoofdvestiging van het Historisch Museum Rotterdam.
		Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago - one of America's largest art museum sites, it offers broad exploration of the museum's permanent collection, current exhibitions and other facilities.
		Orlando Museum of Art - the museum's mission reflects the continued growth of Central Florida, ardent community support for the arts, and the OMA's role as a leading cultural institution in the region.
	www.scaruffi.com /art/museums2.html (1609 words)

	Marion Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
		The Museum’s primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy.
		Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust.
	www.fourperfectpebbles.com /resources_links.asp (1223 words)

	The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
		A documentary exhibition of the archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.
		Glimpses of jewish life in Thessaloniki before the Holocaust.
		In this exhibition, for the first time, we present documents of the pre-war archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, in which we find the indelible imprint of the life of the Jewish community of our city prior to the destruction wrought by the Holocaust.
	www.jmth.gr (92 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
		Union of the French national museum photographs catalogue: 200,000 images from national and main regional museums.
		Museums of Lithuania (in English, French and German).
		The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau.
	icom.museum /vlmp/world.html (1076 words)

	Greece Is the Word! \| The Jewish Exponent
		A highlight of a visit to Jewish Athens has to be the Jewish Museum of Greece -- one of the most important in Europe in terms of exhibits.
		In Thessaloniki (Salonika) -- where there was a larger Jewish community than Athens -- only 1,950 Jew out of a Jewish population of 60,000 remained by the end of the war.
		On the museum's first floor is a model of the Romaniote synagogue of Patras.
	www.jewishexponent.com /article/10195 (930 words)

	NEWS AND EVENTS
		Thessaloniki -- Expressing “endless grief” at the execution of tens of thousands of Thessaloniki’s Jewish population during World War II, Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said the Holocaust Monument in Thessaloniki affirmed that we are to fight for the creation of a peaceful world where all people will co-exist in harmony.
		Participants joined the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki for what was described as a rededication of the Holocaust Monument.
		The group also visited the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki and gathered for a ceremony at the Jewish Community where the Ecumenical Patriarch and Andrew Athens, President of the World Council of Hellenes, who had hosted the Consultation, were made honorary citizens of the Jewish Community.
	www.goarch.org /worldnews/NewsDetail.asp?id=920 (292 words)

	Fodor's Travel Wire \| Thessaloniki, Greece
		The city also has great food, lively nightlife, and a host of museums, from the revamped Archaeological Museum (Manoli Andronikou 6), which displays the weapons of Alexander the Great's empire, to the icon-filled Byzantine Museum (photo right).
		The historic Jewish Museum has objects rescued from the 32 synagogues that existed around the city, some of which were destroyed by nazis.
		There is swimming in Agia Triada (20-30 minutes southwest of the city in the Thessaloniki Gulf) and the Chalkidiki peninsulas (45 minutes to 2 hours to the southeast), and there are plenty of hiking opportunities on biodiverse Mt.
	www.fodors.com /wire/archives/001872.cfm (654 words)

	BERGHAHN BOOKS ONLINE - JOURNALS - '+eval(jnl)[1]+' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jewish Museums: From Jewish Icons to Jewish Narratives
		The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki — Museo Djidio di Salonik
		On the Rise of the House of Rothschild and the Death of Anne Frank: The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt/Main — Regional History with International Accents
	www.berghahnbooksonline.com /journals/ej/toc36-2.html (115 words)

	Panos1111 Home Page - VirtualTourist.com
		You can easily spend a few weeks in Thessaloniki, to explore the city and surrounding areas, especially if you are not familiar with Greece and life in Greece.
		Visit the two museums I mentioned and if you have to choose, go to the Byzantine- they are both great but you 'll have the chance to see good archaeological ones elsewhere.
		Visit the Jewish Museum, Thessaloniki had a huge Jewish population until WWII.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/a22a8 (464 words)

	Preserving Jewish Heritage in Greece
		Coming from a world where Jewish heritage was considered worthy of preservation, I was shocked to find that the conservation of synagogues was not on the agenda of Greek or Greek-Jewish officials.
		Both the Greek historian and geographer Strabo and the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria reported that organized Jewish communities existed throughout the known world in the first centuries A.D. In Greece, substantial communities existed in Thessaly, Beoetia, Macedonia, Aetolia, Attica, Argos, Corinth, throughout much of the Peloponnese, and on the islands of Euboea and Crete.
		The small Jewish communities of Greece, such as Ioannina, Halkida, Rhodes, and others, with populations of fewer than 60 people, are as endangered as Chania and Veroia were 20 years ago.
	cat.he.net /~archaeol/online/features/greece/index.html (2114 words)

	Alphabetical List of non State Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Missolonghi History and Art Museum of the Municipality of the Holy City
		Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil
		Museum of Popular Instruments - The Phoibos Anogeianakis Collection - Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (Athens)
	www.culture.gr /2/21/toc/museums1.html (152 words)

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