Salona
an ancient and now ruined city of Dalmatia; at the head of a gulf of the Adriatic, about 3 miles N. E. of the spot on which Diocletian afterward built his gigantic palace of Spalato. ato. It was made a Roman colony in 78 B. c., and later became the capital of Dalmatia and one of the most important cities and seaports of provincial Rome. But it was frequently captured by the Goths and other barbarians, and in 639 was completely destroyed by the Avars. The inhabitants who escaped took refuge in Hadrian's palace. The ruins were excavated during the 19th century; there are now to be seen remains of the former walls, the shell of the ancient Christian cathedral, seen remains of the former walls, the traces of an amphitheater, and other structures. The city was early made the seat of a bishop, who was soon advanced matia. After the destruction of the city the archbishop converted the temple of Jupiter at Spalato into his cathedral.
Thessalonica; seaport, formerly belonging to Turkey, ; Turkish, Selanik), a large nd awarded to Greece by the treaty and awarded to Greece by the treaty seaport, formerly belonging to Turkey, on a gulf ulf of the Ægean Sea, 315 miles W. S. W. of Constantinople, rising from the sea in the form of an amphitheater, and forming a mixture of squalor and triumphal arches, and remains of Roman temples, Byzantine structures, and Venetian castles. Its harbor is excellent and its roadstead well sheltered. The principal exports are cotton, corn, tobacco, timber, and wool; imports, sugar, coffee, SALSETTE include cotton, silk, leather, carpets, etc. indigo, calicoes, etc. The manufactures include cotton, silk, leather, carpets, an older town in 315 B. c., and had a preached the Gospel here, and addressed Thessalonica was founded on the site of s, etc. preached the Gospel here, and addressed two of his epistles to the Christian converts of the place. In the first Balkan War the Turks surrendered the city and 8, 1912. During the World War, Greece, having failed to fulfill the terms of her an army of 29,000, to the Greeks on May treaty with Serbia against Bulgaria, Sa- August, 1917, a disastrous fire ruined lonica was occupied by the Allies. In treaty with Serbia against Bulgaria, Samilitary base for the Allies in the Balkans two-thirds of the city and made 100,000 persons homeless. Salonica became the two-thirds of the city and made 100,000 which culminated in the surrender of Bulgaria in 1918. See WORLD WAR. Pop. which culminated in the surrender of Bulmilitary base for the Allies in the Balkans (1919) 250,000 civilians.
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