SALONICA

the ancient The alonica, | is the chief port of Macedonia, and stands |» at the head of the Gulf of Salonica which } | forms the nortt-west corner of tho #gean | t Sea. Its ancient importance was due to} s its position as a port upon the great Roman | < road to Byzantium (Constantinople). It has many interesting Greek, Roman, and |< Byzantine remains, but since the great| ( fire of 1890 the busine part of the city}: has been modernized. The chief exports | « are grain, wool, skins and tobacco. ‘ [s. 269]