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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thessalonica
		Thessalonica to the Venetians, the city being captured 28 March, 1430, by the Sultan Murad and definitively incorporated in the Ottoman Empire.
		Thessalonica was dependent on the Church of Byzantium.
		Thessalonica in 1205 Nivelo de Chérisy, Bishop of Soissons, who had taken an active part in the Fourth Crusade, was appointed by Innocent III (10 December, 1206) first Latin archbishop of the city.
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	Thessalonica
		During the first civil war Thessalonica was the principal headquarters of Pompey and the Roman senators; during the second it supported Anthony and Octavius against the Triumvirs, receiving from them after the battle of Philippi the title of free city and other advantages, being allowed to administer its own affairs and obeying magistrates called politarchs.
		Thessalonica, which is the capital of a vilayet, grows constantly in importance, owing to its situation and its commerce, as well as to the part it played in the two military revolutions of 1908 and 1909 which modified the authoritative régime of the Turkish Empire.
		After the establishment of the Latin Kingdom of Thessalonica in 1205 Nivelo de Chérisy, Bishop of Soissons, who had taken an active part in the Fourth Crusade, was appointed by Innocent III (10 December, 1206) first Latin archbishop of the city.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/thessalonica.html (1513 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Illyria
		Thessalonica was delegated; they exercised the patriarchal authority belonging to the pope, as his special commissary.
		Thessalonica persisted for a century with practically no interruption until the connection was weakened by the first Greek schism, brought about by
		Thessalonica, for the provinces in which Latin was spoken, and the Metropolitan of Justiniana Prima, for those in which Greek was the native tongue.
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	Kingdom of Thessalonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade.
		The kingdom occupied land along the Aegean coast of Thrace, Thessaly, and Macedonia, but the interior borders were undefined as the kingdom was constantly at war with the Bulgarians, who wanted to capture the remnants of the Byzantine Empire for themselves, and the Despotate of Epirus, one of the Byzantine states-in-exile trying to reconquer Constantinople.
		The kingdom was claimed by titular kings of the house of Montferrat until 1284 and also by the Dukes of Burgundy; Baldwin II of Constantinople had promised the title to Hugh IV should he regain the Latin Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Thessalonica (532 words)

	Crusader states - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Richard I of England conquered Cyprus on the way to Holy Land, and the island came to be ruled by descendants of the displaced kings of Jerusalem until 1489.
		Thessalonica and the Latin Empire were reconquered by the Byzantines by 1261.
		Descendants of the Crusaders continued to rule in Athens and the Peloponnesus or Morea until the 15th century when the area was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
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	Thessaloniki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the fall of the kingdom of Macedon in 146 BC, Thessaloníki became part of the Roman Empire.
		Thessaloníki and its surrounding territory—the Kingdom of Thessalonica—became the largest fief of the Latin Empire, covering most of north and central Greece.
		It was given by the emperor Baldwin I to his rival Boniface of Montferrat but in 1224 it was seized by Michael Ducas, the Greek Despot of Epirus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thessalonica (2411 words)

	SALONICA - LoveToKnow Article on SALONICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was the attempt made to transfer the whole Bulgarian trade to Thessalonica that in the close of the 9th century caused the invasion of the empire by Simeon of Bulgaria.
		In 904 the Saracens from the Cyrenaica took the place by storm; the public buildings were grievously injured, and the inhabitants to the number of 22,000 were carried off and sold as slaves throughout the countries of the Mediterranean.
		In 1204 Baldwin, conqueror of Constantinople, conferred the kingdom of Thessalonica on Boniface, marquis of Montferrat; but in 1222 Theodore, despot of Epirus, one of the natural enemies of the new kingdom, took the city and had himself there crowned by the patriarch of Macedonian Bulgaria.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SALONICA.htm (2981 words)

	Kingdom of Thessalonica -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived (Click link for more info and facts about Crusader State) Crusader State founded after the (A Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem) Fourth Crusade.
		However, the (A resident of Venice) Venetians felt Boniface was too closely tied to the Byzantine Empire, as his brother (English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)) Conrad had married into the Byzantine royal family.
		The kingdom was claimed by titular kings until 1316 and was for some time nominally inherited by the (Click link for more info and facts about Dukes of Burgundy) Dukes of Burgundy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ki/Kingdom_of_Thessalonica.htm (599 words)

	c. Latin and Greek States in the Middle East. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Division of the Eastern Empire after the fall of Constantinople: A council, composed equally of Crusaders and Venetians, decided to award the imperial crown to Count Baldwin of Flanders, while a Venetian (Pier Morosini) was made patriarch of Constantinople.
		Boniface of Montferrat was made king of Salonika (Thessalonica) and the remaining parts of the empire were assigned to various barons as vassals of the emperor.
		The kingdom of Thessalonica at first extended over part of Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly, but to the west the Greek Michael Angelus Comnenus set himself up as despot of Epirus and soon began to expand his dominion eastward.
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	List of extinct states (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Three Kingdoms came about after the fall of the Han Dynasty in the year 190 and were eventually reunified by the Jin Dynasty in the year 280.
		The Sixteen Kingdoms (304-439) refer to the numerous short-lived states in northern China that appeared for brief periods of time after the retreat of the Jin Dynasty to southern China.
		The Kingdom of Hawaii was unified in 1810 under Kamehameha I, and was recognized by the United States as an independent nation from 1826 until January 17, 1893.
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	The Despotat of Epirus and its relation to the Empire of Nicaea - by Al. Vasilief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Having seized Thessalonica and extended his dominions from the Adriatic to the Aegean, Theodore judged it his right to assume the imperial crown, that is to say, to become emperor of the Romans.
		The proclamation of Theodore's coronation as the Emperor of Thessalonica and his anointment by the archbishop Demetrius Chomatenus must have brought about a political rupture between Thessalonica and Nicaea as well as an ecclesiastical rupture between the western Greek hierarchs and the patriarchate of Nicaea, which was called the patriarchate of Constantinople.
		In the course of a rather long period after the fall of the Latin kingdom of Thessalonica, several western European princes related to the family of Montferrat continued to use in the West the extinct title of king of Thessalonica.
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	Station Information - Thessaloniki
		It was named after Thessalonica, the wife of Cassander and sister of Alexander the Great, who built the city.
		She was so called by her father, Philip, because he first heard of her birth on the day of his gaining a victory over the Thessalians.
		The city became the capital of the Crusader Kingdom of Thessalonica, until it was captured by the Byzantine state of Epirus in 1224.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thessaloniki.html (459 words)

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	Father Demetrios Serfes - St. Demetrios in Thessalonica
		Demetrios of Thessalonica is one of the very few saints from whose relics, by the grace of God, there has flowed a fragrant and healing myrrh.
		AGHIOS DEMETRIOS, the Great Martyr and Myrovletes (myrrh-emitting), was born in Thessalonica in 260 A.D. His parents were illustrious people and along with the transitory glory which Demetrios had from his family, he was adorned with imperishable virtues, with prudence, with sweetness, with humility, with justice, and with every noble comeliness of the soul.
		It is written that when he saw the soldeirs thrusting their spears at him, he raised high his arm and they lanced him in the side, so that he might be deemed worthy to receive the lancing which Christ received in His side, and there ran blood and water from the wound.
	www.serfes.org /lives/stdemetrios.htm (1642 words)

	A Chronology of World Political History (1201 - 1400 C.E.)
		The Mongols invaded southern Caucasus and defeated the coalition army of the Russians and the Kipchaks.
		On.5.19 the Mamluks captured Acre and annhilated the Kingdom of Jerusalem, thus eliminating the last stronghold of the Crusaders in Palestine and putting an end to the Crusades.
		The Zealots (a branch of the Hesychasts) of Thessalonica rose against John VI and established the Republic of Thessalonica, which was controlled by the urban nobles.
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	Latin Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The knights of the Fourth Crusade set up a Crusader kingdom known as the Latin Empire or Romania based on Constantinople after sacking the city in 1204.
		The Latin Empire laid claim to all of the lands controlled by the Byzantine Empire at the time Constantinople was conquered and did exert control over areas of Greece (the Crusader States: the Kingdom of Thessalonica, the Principality of Achaea and the Duchy of Athens).
		However, much of the territory remained in the hands of rival states led by aristocrats of the former empire, such as the Despotate of Epirus, the Empire of Nicaea, and the Empire of Trebizond.
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	Thessaloniki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He named it after his wife Thessalonica, who was also the sister of Alexander the Great.
		Thessaloníki and its surrounding territory — the Kingdom of Thessalonica — became the largest fief of the Latin Empire, covering most of north and central Greece.
		It was given by the emperor Baldwin I to his rival Boniface of Montferrat but in 1224 it was seized by, the Greek Despot of Epirus.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Thessaloniki (1610 words)

	THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM
		Nevertheless, the Kingdom message continued to be preached to the Jews of the dispersion in those places where the Messiah had not yet bee rejected.
		At Thessalonica Paul enters the synagogue, as was h manner, and testifies that Jesus is the Christ (Acts 17:1-3).
		As the Kingdom on earth was gradually rejected by Israel-and as it became increasingly apparent that the promises concerning this nation, and the blessing of the Gentiles through it, would not be realized yet-Paul concentrates on the message addressed to the fourth class, speaking about the heavenly position in Christ and justification.
	www.heavendwellers.com /hd_message_of_the_kingdom.htm (2886 words)

	Italy
		(1) the Kingdom of Lombardy, or Italy, in the north, (2) the Papacy in the center, and (3) the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily in the South.
		That might have been the end of it, and the claim to Thessalonica could have floated around for years like many such claims, if not for the marriage of Boniface's granddaughter Yolanda, who fell heir to Montferrat with the death of her brother in 1305.
		This created a kingdom that, for a time, especially under the Emperor Frederick II, was the center of European politics.
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	Constantinople, Latin Empire of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It was on both sides of the Dardanelles; its rulers were also suzerains of the kingdom of Thessalonica, the principality of Achaia, and other fiefs.
		The empire declined immediately after its creation, being beset by the Greek emperors of Nicaea (see Nicaea, empire of) and despots of Epirus (see Epirus, despotate of), by the Bulgars under Ivan II (Ivan Asen), by the Turks, by discord among the Westerners, and by Greek resistance.
		In 1222, Thessalonica fell to the despot of Epirus.
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	Empire of Nicaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1224 the Latin Kingdom of Thessalonica was captured by the Despot of Epirus, but Epirus itself came under Bulgarian control in 1230.
		In 1235 he allied with Ivan II of Bulgaria, allowing him to extend his influence over Thessalonica and Epirus.
		In 1242 the Mongols invaded Seljuk territory to the west of Nicaea, and although John III was worried they may attack him next, they ended up eliminating the Seljuk threat to Nicaea.
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	Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians. Part III. - History Of The Decline And Fall Of The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The strong cities of the hills of Macedonia and Thrace were rescued from the Bulgarians; and their kingdom was circumscribed by its present and proper limits, along the southern banks of the Danube.
		After some resistance, the kingdom of Thessalonica was united to the empire of Nice; and Vataces reigned without a competitor from the Turkish borders to the Adriatic Gulf.
		In the year 1382, the titular emperor of Constantinople was James de Baux, duke of Andria in the kingdom of Naples, the son of Margaret, daughter of Catherine de Valois, daughter of Catharine, daughter of Philip, son of Baldwin II., (Ducange, l.
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		Within three months after the conquest of Constantinople, the emperor and the king of Thessalonica drew their hostile followers into the field; they were reconciled by the authority of the doge, the advice of the marshal, and the firm freedom of their peers.
		The siege of Thessalonica was the last of the evils which Calo-John inflicted or suffered: he was stabbed in the night in his tent; and the general, perhaps the assassin, who found him weltering in his blood, ascribed the blow, with general applause, to the lance of St. Demetrius.
		The titular kingdom of Jerusalem had devolved to Mary, the daughter of Isabella and Conrad of Montferrat, and the granddaughter of Almeric or Amaury.
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	MACEDONIA - LoveToKnow Article on MACEDONIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thesupremacy of the patriarchate was consummated by the suppression of the autocephalous Slavonic churches of Ipek in 1766 and Ochrida in 1767.
		In the latter half of the 18th century Greek ascendancy in Macedonia was at its zenith; its decline began with the War of Independence, the establishment of the Hellenic kingdom, and the extinction of the Phanariot power in Constantinople.
		The oldest archaeological monuments of Macedonia are its coins, for which the mines of Crenides (the later Philippi), at the foot of Mt Pangaeus, of Chalcidice, of the island of Thasos, and of the mountains between Lake Prasias and the ancient Macedonian kingdom (Herod.
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