The Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum was built in 1962 (designed by the architect Patroklos Karantinos) in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was extensively restored in 1980, 2001 and 2004. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Thessaloniki, (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη), is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia and the periphery of Central Macedonia. ...
The museum houses exhibits of Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Romansculptures from the city of Thessaloniki in particular and the Macedonia region in general. One wing hosts the finds from the Sindos cemetery and is called 'The Gold of Macedon'. Archaic is a generic adjective that can refer to several things from the past. ... Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century AD... The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Macedons regions and towns Macedon or Macedonia (from Greek ; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was the name of an ancient kingdom in the northern-most part of ancient Greece, bordering the kingdom of Epirus on the west and the region of Thrace to the east[1...
Thessaloniki, Thessalonica or Salonica (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη) is the second-largest city of Greece and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia.
Thessaloniki's urban area, stretching along a bay of the Thermaic Gulf for approximately 17 km, is comprised of a total of 13 municipalities and has a population of 809.457.
Thessaloniki was the main prize of the First Balkan War of 1912, during which it was captured by Greece on 26 October 1912, which is now a local holiday.
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