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Thessalonica - ܬܣܠܘܢܝܩܐ

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"One of the most important Roman cities on the Balkan peninsula, Thessalonica was provincial capital of Macedonia prima and the administrative center of the whole Illyrian prefecture. Prior to the rise of Constantinople, it was even imperial capital during parts of the 4th century."1

Names

  • ܬܣܠܘܢܝܩܐ
  • Thessalonica
  • ܬܣܠܘܢܝܩܐ2
  • Thessalonica1

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 40.628342° Long. 22.952885°3
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), p: 1491. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 57; 327chapter: 3.2.3; 3.6.25. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491741