Thessaloniki

Until 1912 Thessaloniki was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious city inhabited mainly by Jews, Muslims, Christians and other smaller ethnic and religious groups. Since its incorporation into the Greek state, constant population movements have been a decisive factor in its formation. In the period after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the exchange of populations, both the population composition of the city and its map and housing stock changed radically. Since then and until today thousands of people have arrived, settled and left its neighbourhoods.