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	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 (2043 words)

	White Tower of Thessaloniki : Information and resources about White Tower of Thessaloniki : School Work Guru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Tower was for centuries part of the walls of the old city of Thessaloniki (known as Salonik in Ottoman times), but these were demolished in 1866.
		When Thessaloniki was captured by the Greeks during the Balkan War of 1912, the tower was whitewashed as a symbolic gesture of cleansing, and acquired its present name.
		The Tower is under the administation of the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
	www.schoolworkguru.org /encyclopedia/w/wh/white_tower_of_thessaloniki.html (530 words)

	Thessaloniki pictures and videos on Webshots
		Greece - The white tower - Thessaloniki 14.3
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	www.webshots.com /search?query=Thessaloniki (223 words)

	White Tower of Thessaloniki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The White Tower of Thessaloniki (in Greek, Lefkos Pyrgos or Λευκός Πύργος) is a monument on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the province of Macedonia in northern Greece.
		The present tower dates from the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520- 66).
		In 1826, at the order of the Sultan Mahmud II, there was a massacre of the prisoners in the Tower, and it acquired the name "the Bloody Tower." The Tower was for centuries part of the walls of the old city of Thessaloniki (known as Salonik in Ottoman times), but these were demolished in 1866.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=White_Tower_of_Thessaloniki (485 words)

	Top Literature - White Tower of Thessaloniki
		The White Tower of Thessaloniki (Greek: Λευκός Πύργος Lefkos Pyrgos, Turkish: Beyaz Kule) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece.
		The Tower was for centuries part of the walls of the old city of Thessaloniki (known as Salonik in Ottoman times), and separated the Jewish quarter of the city from the cemeteries of the Muslims and Jews.
		The Tower is under the administration of the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=White_Tower_of_Thessaloniki (526 words)

	Thessaloniki - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It is also the capital of the Thessaloniki Prefecture and the capital of the EU region (or, synonymously, Greek periphery) of Central Macedonia.
		Thessaloniki became the Cultural capital of Europe for 1997.
		In the 1980s, the 2-lane bypass of Thessaloniki began construction and was finally opened to traffic running from the west side up to the other side of Thessaloniki to its southeast approaching Thermi.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Salonika (1669 words)

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		Thessaloniki is also nominee for the World's largest fair EXPO for the year 2008.
		Aghios Dimitrios, the biggest church of Greece, a basilica, dedicated to the patron saint of Thessaloniki, was built in 412-413 A.D. Holy Mary Ahiropiitos was built around in 431 A.D. and it is a three part Vasilica.
		Below there are stretched the triple peninsula of Chalkidiki to the SE, Thessaloniki to the W and the Thermaikos bay SW with Ossa and Olympos at the built by the empress Theano.
	www.bookhotels.gr /prefecture_greece.asp?nom=1 (1448 words)

	Hotels in Thessaloniki, Greece - Online Travel Reservations to Hotels In Thessaloniki, Greece
		Thessaloniki, GR Situated in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki this Holiday Inn is approximately half a mile from Aristotelous Square and 10 miles from Makedonia International Airport....
		Thessaloniki, GR Ideally located on the edge of the cityÃ‚?s waterfront the hotel enjoys spectacular views of the famous White Tower and the Thermaikos Gulf and is within walking distance of the International Exhibition Centre and the cityÃ‚?s business and shopping district as well as many of the cityÃ‚?s museums and galleries.
		Thessaloniki, GR Mandrino Hotel is half a mile from Ladadika one mile from the White Tower and approximately 10 miles from Thessalonika-Makedonia Airport....
	www.hotel-greece.com /city/thessaloniki (0 words)

	Thessaloniki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Thessaloniki was founded around two and a half thousands years ago to fulfill the need for a metropolis in ancient Macedonia.
		A meeting point of sea routes and road networks, Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and has always been a populous port, facilitating contact between the people of the Balkans and the economy and civilizations of the Mediterranean as a whole.
		The cultural heritage of Thessaloniki is being reflected in its museums, art galleries and libraries, studied at its intellectual establishments and cultivated through a remarkable cultural activity.
	www.music.columbia.edu /~icmc97/thess.html (217 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Thessaloniki
		It is also the capital of the Thessaloniki Prefecture.
		Thessaloniki is accessed with GR-1/E75 for Athens, GR-4, GR-2, Via Egnatia/E90 and GR-12 /E85 for Serres and Sofia.
		Thessaloniki has schools, lyceums, a gymnasium, banks, a post office, and squares (plateies).
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Salonika (1628 words)

	Thessaloniki - Phantis
		Thessaloniki's acropolis, located in the northern hills, was built in 55 BC after Thracian raids in the city's outskirts for security reasons.
		Thessaloniki became the European City of Culture for 1997.
		The White Tower (Lefkos Pyrgos), widely regarded as the symbol of the city.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Thessaloniki (1963 words)

	White Tower: Thessaloniki's symbol through time - THESSALONIKI GREECE
		The aim of this most interesting exhibition, organized by the Museum of Byzantine Culture, is to highlight on the most famous edifice of Thessaloniki, as a symbol and trademark of the city: The White Tower.
		The exhibition entitled White Tower: Thessaloniki's symbol through time, is due to last from September 5, 2003, up until the year 2006, when the monument will be turned into a museum.
		The photographic material of the exhibition intends to take visitors to a journey through the history of Thessaloniki's monument that -although it is relatively new campared to the centurie-long history of the city- became its symbol.
	www.travel-to-thessaloniki.com /article.php?article_id=2 (205 words)

	Greece Travel: Thessaloniki Guide
		Thessaloniki is the capital of Macedonia and second largest city of Greece.
		Thessaloniki is also the birthplace of modern Greek basketball, home of the team Aris and Greece's superstars Nick Gallis (former Seton Hall), Panagiotis Yannakis, Panagiotis Fassoulis (NC State), Yannis Ioandidis and others.
		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)

	Thessaloniki travel guide - Wikitravel
		Thessaloniki [1] is in the Greek district of Central Macedonia, and with about a million inhabitants is the second biggest city in the country.
		Hostels: The Youth Hostel in Thessaloniki, situated in the city center (Alexandrou Svolou St.), is a fair choice for students and travellers on a budget.
		Thessaloniki is by far the liveliest city in Northern Greece- maybe even the whole country.
	wikitravel.org /en/Thessaloniki (0 words)

	The White Tower in modern Thessaloniki
		The Canli Kule (bloody tower) housed the Janissary guards until the Sultan had them put to death there in 1826; it continued to be the place where tortures and executions were carried out (the "Bastille" of Thessaloniki).
		During the Sublime Porte's efforts at modernization in 1883, the Tower was painted white and converted into a common prison for a short period.
		The famous "Garden of White Tower", was built in 1906 on behalf of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/C3.1.1.1.html (141 words)

	Thessaloniki, Greece - facts, sightseeing, accommodation.
		Thessaloniki is the second town in Greece by population, after Athens.
		In Byzantine times, Thessaloniki became a cultural and artistic centre second only to Constantinople in the whole empire among the numerous monuments of particular interest in the city are those from the Roman period, the Triumphal Arch or Galerius and the Rotonda.
		Today Thessaloniki is a thriving city and one of the most important trade and communications centers in the Mediterranean.
	www.tours2greece.info /greece-travel/thessaloniki.php (317 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Commemorative coins of Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The 1988 coins were minted to honour the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki.
		100 drachmas, copper and nickel, chess olympiad emblem and the White Tower
		The White Tower of Thessaloniki The White Tower of Thessaloniki (in Greek, Î›ÎµÏ…ÎºÏŒÏ‚ Î ÏÏÎ³Î¿Ï‚, Lefkos Pyrgos, Macedonian: Ð‘ÐµÐ»Ð° ÐšÑƒÐ»Ð°, Bela Kula) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Commemorative-coins-of-Greece (1940 words)

	SUTRA, a City of Tomorrow project: City Profil: Thessaloniki
		The population of the city of Thessaloniki with the suburbs is 1048151 (NSSG,2001) with about 500000 of them living in the center of the city.
		Thessaloniki, is one of the oldest cities in Europe.It was founded about 315 B.C., on a site of old prehistoric settlements going back to 2300 B.C., by Cassander, King of Macedonia, and was named after his wife, Thessaloniki, sister of Alexander The Great.
		Despite the unfavourable conditions prevailing during the Turkish occupation, there were Greek schools in Thessaloniki that struggled, successfully to a large degree, to preserve the Greek language and literature until the city was liberated in October 26, 1912, the anniversary of its patron saint, St.
	www.ess.co.at /SUTRA/CITIES/thessaloniki.html (692 words)

	Thessaloniki, Greece: Stylish and Cultured, Without the Big-City Hassle
		Thessaloniki stretches for seven and a half miles (12 km) along the Thermaikos Kolpos (Thermaic, or warm, Gulf), and is the economic and cultural capital of northern Greece.
		Thessaloniki is packed with 2,300 years of history: it was first established by the ancient Macedonian dynasty, and numerous surviving ruins, churches and majestic fortress walls attest to the city’s later Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods.
		It was in Thessaloniki that the Apostle Paul delivered his famous sermons to the Macedonians, and it was here that, eight centuries later, the monks Cyril and Methodius were recruited to bring religion and a written alphabet (Cyrillic) to the Slavic populations to the north.
	www.gonomad.com /destinations/0606/thessaloniki.html (2849 words)

	The White Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		he White Tower is a defensive structure dated to the 15th century.
		It was built on the place where an older, Byzantine tower once stood.
		This Byzantine tower connected the east wall of the fortification of Thessalonike (the part preserved today) with the sea wall, which was demolished in 1866.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/212/21209m/e212im02.html (261 words)

	White Tower, Greece. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		The most prominent central post-Byzantine monument is at the far northeastern end of seafront promenade Leofóros Níkis: the White Tower (Lefkós Pyrgos), which formed the southeast corner of the city's Byzantine and Turkish defences before most of the walls were demolished late in the nineteenth century.
		Prior to this, it was the "Bloody Tower", a place of imprisonment and (in 1826) execution of the janissaries, until the Greeks whitewashed both the building and its image after World War I, removing at the same time a polygonal outer enclosure built by the Ottomans in 1875.
		Today, stripped of white pigment, it looks a little stagey in its isolation, but is a graceful symbol nonetheless, which for years appeared as the background logo on the evening TV news.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/greece/white_tower (181 words)

	Macedonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The White Tower is all that remains of a series of walls and towers built by the Ottoman Turks around the second biggest city of Greece, the city of Thessaloníki.
		The tower was originally called the "Bloody Tower," because the Turks carried out executions there.
		Thessaloniki, else known as Salonika, has a population of one million people and its port is the biggest of the area of Balkans.
	www.ucd.ie /hellenic/macedonia.htm (68 words)

	Byzantine Museum - Thessaloniki Greece
		The new exhibition at the White Tower - which is the symbol of Thessaloniki, by historical coincidence- is not aimed solely at visitors wanting to get to know the city, but also -and above all- at its inhabitants.
		In the eighteenth century it was called the "Kalamaria Fortress", and in the nineteenth century, when it was a jail for long-term prisoners, it became the "Janissaries' Tower" and the Kanli-Kule or "Bloody Tower".
		The permanent exhibition "Thessaloniki: History and Art" was presented there from 1985 to 1994, when the Museum of Byzantine Culture opened; the artefacts on display were then gradually transferred to the latter.
	www.mbp.gr /html/en/pirgos.htm (519 words)

	Museums of Macedonia, Greece — Museum of the History and Art of Thessaloniki
		The symbol of Thessaloniki, the White Tower is a 15
		Today the White Tower is used as the exhibition space of the Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki.
		The theme of the top floor was death, covering burial and graves, funerary customs, finds from graves, gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries, even objects and specimens of magic were on display in the show cases on the top floor of the Tower.
	www.museumsofmacedonia.gr /Archaeological_and_Byzantine/Arx_Leukos_Pyrgos.html (314 words)

	TheTravelzine.com Greece Fall 1997 (5) Thessaloniki, Edessa and Noussa
		Thessaloniki boasts many Byzantine and Roman monuments, the White Tower being the best known, countless churches and an old town.
		Connecting Aristotelous Square with the White Tower, Thessaloniki's most famous landmark, is the seaside boulevard called Leoforos Nikis which is home to a long line-up of cafes which attract throngs of young people day and night.
		The setting on the Thermaic Gulf close to the White Tower is spectacular and the interior of marble, stone, wood, wall-frescoes, paintings and antiques is very impressive.
	www.thetravelzine.com /greece5.htm (2250 words)

	Thessaloníki
		It is also the capital of the Thessaloniki Prefecture [2] and the capital of the EU region (or, synonymously, Greek periphery) of Central Macedonia.
		The International Thessaloniki Film Festival has become the Balkans' primary showcase for the work of new and emerging filmmakers, as well as the leading film festival in the region.
		It is organised and overlooked by the Municipality of Thessaloniki [4] and last year it celebrated 40 years of history [5].
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Cities/Thessaloniki.html (2084 words)

	Thessaloniki Cultural Clapital of Europe for 1997
		Greece's northern port city of Thessaloniki marked the advent of 1997 with city-wide festivities that bodes well for the city's tenure as Cultural Capital of Europe.
		Thessaloniki, the Lady of the Balkans, is as of today also the Cultural Capital of Europe," renowned Greek tragedian Irene Pappas told a gathering of thousands in the city's center, ushering in the New Year and inaugurating the year-long Cultural Capital events.
		The heavy fog covering the coast around Thessaloniki's most famous landmark, the White Tower, gave the entire scene an ethereal feel, making an ideal backdrop for the Byzantine hymns sung by Irene Pappas, accompanied by a choir.
	www.greekembassy.org /embassy/content/en/Article.aspx?office=1&folder=254&article=1435 (232 words)

	Thessaloniki accommodation specials and discounts Greece
		The Capsis Hotel Thessaloniki was built in the year 1968 and is located in the heart of Thessaloniki.It is the largest hotel in Northern Greece.
		The Promenade and the White Tower, among many other attractions of the city, are within a walking distance from your room.
		Built on the lush green hill of Panorama, the most elegant of Thessaloniki's suburbs, the Panorama is a hotel that provides its guests with clean air, a quiet environment and an ideal solution for getting away from the daily routine of city life.
	www.worldaccommodationbookings.net /html/hotels.php?region=857 (996 words)

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