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Thermi is a southeastern suburb and a municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Its population was 55,358 at the 2021 census. It is located over the site of ancient Therma.
View from the road
Dam of Thermi
Interior of the International Hellenic University
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Therma or Thermē is the unknown city incorporated into the new city of Thessaloniki by the Macedonians on its synoecism and foundation. Little is known of literary Therma, including its exact location
Thermi
…municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Its population was 55,358 at the 2021 census. It is located over the site of ancient Therma. The municipality Thermi was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal…
Herodotus says that Xerxes, Persian invader of Greece in 480 BC, could see Mounts Olympus and Ossa from Therma. They were two mountains in Thessaly across the Thermaic Gulf. This view from Thessaloniki, looking southward along the shore at Mikro Emvolo, seems to fit. It is intermediate in distance between the two habitation sites believed to be possibly ancient Therma. The coordinates given here belong to this coastal point.