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Kozmo.com was a venture-capital -funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, DVDs, music, mags, books, food, basics & more" [1] and Starbucks coffee in several major cities in the United States. It was founded in March 1998 by young investment bankers Joseph Park and Yong Kang in New York City, and was out of ...
The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki reaches back two thousand years. The city of Thessaloniki (also known as Salonika) housed a major Jewish community, mostly Eastern Sephardim, until the middle of the Second World War. Sephardic Jews immigrated to the city following the expulsion of Jews from Spain by Catholic rulers under the Alhambra ...
The Normans occupied Thessalonica until mid-November, when, following their defeat at the Battle of Demetritzes, they evacuated it.After emperor Andronikos Komnenos's massacre of the Latins in Constantinople in 1182, the massacre of the Thessalonians deepened the rift between the Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity.
The historical center of Thessaloniki, with monuments from the city's Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman past. The history of the city of Thessaloniki dates back to the ancient Macedonians. Today with the opening of borders in Southeastern Europe it is currently experiencing a strong revival, serving as the prime port for the northern ...
The White Tower of Thessaloniki ( Greek: Λευκός ΠύργοςLefkós Pýrgos; Turkish: Beyaz Kule; Ladino: Kuli Blanka) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification, known to have been mentioned around ...
The Edict of Thessalonica (also known as Cunctos populos ), issued on 27 February AD 380 by Theodosius I, made Nicene Christianity [ note 1] the state church of the Roman Empire. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It condemned other Christian creeds such as Arianism as heresies of "foolish madmen," and authorized their punishment. [ 5]
Modiano Market. Coordinates: 40.6349°N 22.9418°E. Plan of the building. Exterior view. Modiano Market or Stoa Modiano ( Greek: Στοά Μοδιάνο) is an enclosed market in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was built between 1922 and 1925, after the great fire, on the site of the old Talmud Tora synagogue. It is in the center of the city and forms ...
Terkenlis was founded by Stavros Terkenlis in 1948 in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. [citation needed] The company has remained family-run; [1] its owner and managing director is Pavlos Terkenlis. The oldest of the shops is in central Thessaloniki, in the main square on the corner of Tsimiski Street and Aristotelous Square. Terkenlis has since ...