Thessaloniki:
Thessaloniki, Thessalonica, or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the nation's largest region, Macedonia. It is honorarily called the Symprotevousa (lit. co-capital) of Greece, as it was once called the symbasilevousa (co-queen) of the Byzantine Empire. The Thessaloniki Urban Area is the largest city in the wider geographical region of Macedonia. According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Thessaloniki had a population of 363,987. The entire Thessaloniki Urban Area had a population of 763,468.
Thessaloniki is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for the rest of southeastern Europe; its commercial port is also of great importance for Greece and its southeast European hinterland. It is customary for the country's Prime Minister to set out the government's policies or give an overview of financial and economic accomplishments each year in a speech at the annual Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
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