Thessaloniki
Greece
Charter Flights Connect Thessaloniki With Smyrna
During this year's summer season Thessaloniki and Smyrna are expected to come a little bit closer.
The air connection between the two cities will be open from June 22 to September 12 with charter flights, stated the General Manager of...
Greece
Samaras Vows Crackdown on Neo-Nazis
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki's Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Samaras spoke Sunday at a memorial ceremony at the...
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Thessaloniki Jews Mark Nazi deportation
In a somber ceremony commemorating a dark day in Greek history, Jewish residents of Thessaloniki gathered on March 16 to note the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of the northern Greek city’s Jews to Nazi extermination camps...
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Thessaloniki Jews Commemorate Deportation by Nazis
On March 15, 1943, the first train to Auschwitz left Thessaloniki, taking about 2, 800 Jews from the city. In memory of the first Holocaust victims from Thessaloniki, memorial events will take place in the city titled, Never Again....
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Turkish Women In Thessaloniki Event
Some 220 Turkish women came to Thessaloniki to mark a Woman's Day celebration on March 8 at the Grand Hotel Palace where they were welcomed by Mayor Yiannis Boutaris and Seçil Doğan, Vice Consul of the Turkish Republic.
The event...
Culture
Boutaris Gets Turkey’s Thanks On Heritage
Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik met with Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, in Ankara and thanked him for his sensitivity over the protection of Turkish and Ottoman artifacts in Thessaloniki. Boutaris told Turkish reporters about the construction of...
Economy
Alexanderland Theme Park in Thessaloniki
With tension still high with the neighboring Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) for trying to claim Alexander the Great as its own, Thessaloniki has responded with a theme park called Alexanderland to present his life and work.
It is...
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Thessaloniki Gets 2014 World Rowing Games
The port city of Thessaloniki will be organizing and hosting one of the most important and prestigious sports events in October 2014, winning the 2014 World Coastal Rowing Championships.
The decision came from the World Rowing Federation (FISA) delivered during...
Art
Tobacco Art Masterpiece Returns to Thessaloniki
The Cultivation of Tobacco, the monumental artwork created in 1960 by one of the greatest Greek engravers Tassos (Anastasios Alevizos) and his wife, also an engraver, Loukia Maggiorou, is returning to Stavroupouli in Thessaloniki.
The Greek masterpiece shows men and...
Greece
Turkish Airlines Makes Thessaloniki Hub
Turkish Airlines aims to make Thessaloniki a global city, the airline’s director in Thessaloniki, Utku Yazan, said on Jan. 31 during the airline’s renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Thessaloniki Hotels Association.
He expressed his belief that 2013...