Ancient city in Macedonia.
Macedonian general and later King
Cassander named this port city after
his wife. . .It held importance as a city
stop along the Via Egnatia a roadway
that ran east to west connecting the
Adriatic and Aegean Seas. By the
time Apostle Paul visited Roman
Thessalonica it was a prosperous,
cosmopolitan, "the mother of all
Macedonia" (Antipate of Thessalonica,
Palatine Anthology IV. 228).
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