Twin towns – sister cities Thessaloniki is twinned with: Hartford, United States (1962) Alexandria, Egypt (1993) Bologna, Italy (1984) Leipzig, Germany (1984) Limassol, Cyprus (1984) Melbourne, Australia (1984) Plovdiv, Bulgaria (1984) Bratislava, Slovakia (1986) Cologne, Germany (1988) Constanţa, Romania (1988) San Francisco, United States (1990) Nice, France (1992) Tel Aviv, Israel (1994) Kolkata, India (2005) Korçë, Albania (2005) Busan, South Korea (2010) Durrës, Albania (2012) Other cooperation Thessaloniki also cooperates with: Toronto, Canada (1986) Budapest, Hungary (1993) Brooklyn (New York), United States (1993) Boston, United States (1996) Shenyang, China (2000) Gyumri, Armenia (2000) Philadelphia, United States (2002) Saint Petersburg, Russia (2002) Dnipro, Ukraine (2003) Venice, Italy (2003) Dongguan, China (2008) See also Thessaloniki metropolitan area Battle of Thessalonica (fourteen events at various times) Macedonians (Greeks) Mount Chortiatis, above the city Lake Koroneia, 14 km from the city Delta of Axios National Park, west of the city References Notes Bibliography Apostolos Papagiannopoulos,Monuments of Thessaloniki, Rekos Ltd, date unknown. Apostolos P. Vacalopoulos, A History of Thessaloniki, Institute for Balkan Studies,1972. John R. Melville-Jones, 'Venice and Thessalonica 1423–1430 Vol I, The Venetian Accounts, Vol. II, the Greek Accounts, Unipress, Padova, 2002 and 2006 (the latter work contains English translations of accounts of the events of this period by St Symeon of Thessaloniki and John Anagnostes). Thessaloniki: Tourist guide and street map, A. Kessopoulos, MalliareÌ"s-Paideia, 1988. Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950, 2004, . Naar, Devin E. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2016. 400 pp. . Μεσσίνας, Ηλίας. Οι Συναγωγές της Θεσσαλονίκης και της Βέροιας. Εκδόσεις Γαβριηλίδης, 1997. . Messinas, Elias. The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace: With Architectural Drawings of all Synagogues of Greece. Seattle: KDP, 2022. Eugenia Russell, St Demetrius of Thessalonica; Cult and Devotion in the Middle Ages, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2010. James C. Skedros, Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki: Civic Patron and Divine Protector, 4th-7Th Centuries (Harvard Theological Studies), Trinity Press International (1999). Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis (ed.), Restructuring the City: International Urban Design Competitions for Thessaloniki, Andreas Papadakis, 1999. Matthieu Ghilardi, Dynamiques spatiales et reconstitutions paléogéographiques de la plaine de Thessalonique (Grèce) à l'Holocène récent, 2007. Thèse de Doctorat de l'Université de Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, 475 p. External links Government Municipality of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Port Authority ΟΑΣΘ – Organisation of Urban Transport of Thessaloniki Tourism