Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, is both historic and avant-garde, and an ideal destination for a short city break ...

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the Byzantine capital, in the middle of that century. Byzantium, later Constantinople, had been the capital of the Easten Roman Empire and several of today’s landmarks in Istanbul predate the Ottomans ...

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