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'Thessalonica', 1890. Thessaloniki, capital of Greek Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, became the second largest and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]