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Definition of Salonica

1. Noun. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea; second largest city of Greece.

Definition of Salonica

1. Proper noun. Alternative spelling of '''Salonika'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salonica

Literary usage of Salonica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"CHAPTER FOURTEEN salonica AND MONASTIR I AT salonica In the general scheme ... In the first place, the Army of the Orient had been sent to salonica to save ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"salonica. The town of salonica, sacked as it has been at different periods, ... Christian antiquity is represented at salonica by three fine edifices, ..."

3. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe by Georgina Muir Mackenzie, Adelina Paulina Irby (1877)
"AUE visit to salonica happened in June, when silk merchants were scouring the country, taking up all decent horses, and over-paying the Turkish guards. ..."

4. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe by Georgina Muir Mackenzie, Adelina Paulina Irby (1877)
"... salonica TO MONASTIC AUK visit to salonica happened in June, when silk merchants were scouring the country, taking up all decent horses, and over-paying ..."

5. Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, the by John Murray (Firm) (1854)
"A few Frank merchants are settled at salonica, besides the consular body. ... salonica is subject to malaria, and the whole country at the head of the Gulf ..."

6. Turkey in Europe by James Baker (1877)
"THE Macedonian, or as they are now called, the salonica plains, are bounded on the west by the chain of mountains formed by Olympus, ..."

7. Travels & Discoveries in the Levant by Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi (1865)
"HAVING occasion to go to salonica last month on business, ... I went straight by steamer from Mytilene to salonica, where I passed three days very agreeably ..."

8. The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism by Henry Charles Woods (1918)
"To consider in somewhat fuller detail the reasons of the salonica expedition, it may be said that whilst a successful Dardanelles campaign would ..."

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