Thessalonica

Place of martyrdom · Imperial capital · today Thessaloniki

city in Macedonia, Greece

Location: 40.6403, 22.9356 · Pleiades 491741

What this place is

Imperial capital — Galerius's imperial residence around 300 — the palace, the arch and the rotunda are his — and afterwards the seat of the Illyrian prefecture

Who is recorded here

Paul the Apostle ministry · AD 50
Demetrius of Thessaloniki birth · AD 300
Demetrius of Thessaloniki death · AD 306
Licinius death · AD 325
Methodius of Thessaloniki nativity · AD 815
Methodius of Thessaloniki birth · AD 815
Saint Cyril the Philosopher nativity · AD 826
Saint Cyril the Philosopher birth · AD 827
Aristarchus of Thessalonica birth
Demophilus of Constantinople birth
Jason of Thessalonica residence
Paul I of Constantinople birth
Paul the Apostle residence
Silvanus of the Seventy death

What happened here

The riot at Thessalonica and Jason's bond AD 50
Demas deserts Paul AD 64
The martyrdom of Demetrius AD 306
Edict of Thessalonica AD 380
The massacre at Thessalonica AD 390

In art

File:Thessalonica Montage L.png — SilentResident (compilation, sources to attribute see above; if any of the sources used in the Montage are removed from Wikimedia Commons, or better ones are found, please inform its creator so that they can update it. You can contact the creator by leaving a message here: [1])

About the place

Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece.

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