Thessalonica
Proper noun
Meaning
Thessalonica
Alternative form of Thessaloniki
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Thessalonica remained Greek and the capital of the country.
After the fall of the kingdom of Macedon in 168 BC, Thessalonica became a free city of the Roman Republic under Mark Antony in 41 BC.
By the latter part of that century, however, building activity seems to have stopped virtually everywhere except Constantinople, Thessalonica, Corinth and Athens.
Captured by Boniface, Alexios and his retinue were sent to Montferrat before being brought back to Thessalonica in c. 1209.
His virtus could thus be remembered in perpetuity, and he could be memorialised as a skilled fighter, one worth avenging: "I, Victor, left-handed, lie here, but my homeland was in Thessalonica.
He also maintained the rights of the Pope over Illyria and the position of the archbishop of Thessalonica as head of the local Illyrian church.