1st millennium BC

Twelve historical artifacts previously smuggled from Türkiye will be brought to the country as of March 22, Culture and Tourism Ministry Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has stated.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will attend the annual silent memorial march for Holocaust victims in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Sunday. 

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first train conveying Jewish inhabitants of Thessaloniki to Nazi execution camps, where an estimated 50,000 Thessaloniki Jews were slaughtered. 

A fire has broken out in an abandoned Thessaloniki factory on Monday afternoon, outside the area of Sindos.

According to a Hellenic Fire Service official, the fire started from a rubbish dump and the service was informed at 5 p.m. There are currently 13 firefighters and five vehicles operating on scene.

The smoke plume is visible across a wide area.

Archaeologists analyzing a shipwreck stumbled upon by divers in summer 2022 are connecting it to the 1821 Greek Revolution.

It was found in the sea off Fourka in Halkidiki, with two cannons and a one-and-a-half-meter-long rifle on its wooden hull, and seems to have been used during the Revolution.

A 28-year-old Greek woman was arrested for lighting up a cigarette in the toilet of the aircraft during a flight from London to Thessaloniki on Wednesday morning.

She was arrested upon her arrival at the northern Greek city's airport by police on charges she violated the express orders of the airplane's captain.

A car plunged into the water in Thessaloniki on Wednesday. Its 45-year-old driver was rescued from the car and taken to hospital in an unconscious state. The car was later pulled out of the water by a crane.

The incident occurred at midday, with the Coast Guard, the Hellenic Fire Service, the police, and divers all arriving on scene.  

A sample from a Byzantine-era wall found at Thessaloniki's under-construction Venizelos metro station sits under the microscope at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's Laboratory of Building Materials.

All roads lead to Rome, as the saying goes, and the most prestigious is the Appian Way, the strategic highway for the Roman Empire now hoping to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The world's first factory to produce the new third-generation photovoltaics, which can deliver electricity from almost anywhere the sun shines, will be created in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, as part of a major European project.

Military tombstones, milestones, inscriptions and war equipment that have been found during the excavations in the ancient city of Satala, where the Roman 15th Legion ruled for 600 years and served as a military headquarters in the northern province of Gümüşhane, are on display for the first time.