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Tessalonicae

Thessalonike · Salonica · Θεσσαλονίκη

Thessalonica, today Thessaloniki in Greece, was founded around 315 BC by Cassander, who named it after his wife, a half-sister of Alexander the Great. The map gives the name in the locative, meaning “at Thessalonica”, and draws a six-sided walled city with four towers, a picture that probably reflects the years around 300 to 330, when the emperor Galerius turned it into a splendid residence. The map also shifts the city: it really lies at the head of its gulf, not at the entrance, probably moved to make room for a straightened road from Larissa.

Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.

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