Hope our stop in Thessaloniki goes better than Greece's George I in 1913; this happened to him there
He 
was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-
Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces during the successful Balkan Wars 
of 19121913, in which Greece expanded to include Thessaloniki, doubling in ... 
Constantine later conferred more than that; he eagerly assumed the... [DOC] [TLE] Greece facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] Migratory and native birds abound and there are more than 250 species of ... 
Another major urban area is Thessaloniki with a metropolitan population of 
824,000.