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Thessaloniki, named after the sister of Alexander the Great, is located at the boundary of Europe and Asia. The city was founded on the site of a neolithic settlement by King Cassander of Macedonia in 315 BC. In 168 BC, Thessaloniki became capital of the Roman province of Macedonia. With the founding of the Byzantine empire in 395 AD, Thessaloniki was proclaimed coregent with Constantinople. Occupied by the Turks in 1430, Thessaloniki was liberated by Greece in 1912. With a population of one million, Thessaloniki is Greece's second biggest city and her greatest port. In 1997, the city was designated the Cultural Capital of Europe. The Aristotle University in Thessaloniki is Greece's largest university with a student population of 60,000.

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