Two decades later, the old, multi-ethnic character of Salonika took a final, devastating blow.
Salonika's new but unfinished sewage-treatment plant wafts its fragrance across the otherwise attractive waterfront.
So would Serbia, which wants to preserve its access to the Greek port of Salonika through the Vardar valley.
To cap it all, tourists who have been lured to Salonika seem to be attracted by the wrong type of culture.
In Salonika, according to one account, he married a Torah scroll.
Hassan had spells at PAOK Salonika in Greece and Neuchatel Xamax in Switzerland, but like most Egyptian players had to be content with playing in Europe's smaller leagues.
He was sent to Salonika, where he caught acute malaria and then, after a further spell of recuperation in Blighty, served out the final months of the war in France.
Born into a rich Ottoman family in 1940, Mr Cem is proud of roots that go back to Salonika, now in Greece, where modern Turkey's founder, Kemal Ataturk, was born.
Then there is the awkwardness about Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, who happened to have been brought up (as plain Mustafa Kemal) in Salonika, where his native home still stands.
With customs officers on hand 24 hours a day, the time needed to buy goods in Greece, or take delivery of containers arriving by train from the port of Salonika, should be slashed.
Born into a poor family in Salonika, Greece, Shlomo Venezia was arrested at the age of 21, in March 1944, and deported with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he lost his mother and two sisters.
Training, already ingeniously split between plain in Turin and vocational in Salonika, could no doubt be subdivided further: practical (Germany?), emotional (Poland?), theological (for Geneva, when one day even the Swiss come in), monarchical (Bulgaria) and so on.
While a recent inflow of migrants from eastern Europe has restored to Salonika some of its old diversity, not much in today's spanking modern city reminds the visitor of a rich, cosmopolitan past: only the ghosts evoked by an occasional Jewish or Ottoman building, if you are sensitive to that kind of thing.
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