Salonika
Salonika | |
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| File:Salonikamontage.png | |
| Country | Willink |
| Episkopi | Patriarchate of Salonika |
| Settled | c.640 BC |
| Government | |
| • Type | Association of municipal corporations |
| • Body | Estates of Salonika |
| • Hypatos | Emilios Frangopoulos |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Urban | 42,320,500 |
| • Metro | 162,520,000 |
| Demonym | Salonikan |
| Time zone | +1 (Kingston Mean Time) |
Salonika (Willinkian: Σαλονίκα) (Mariac: 𐡎𐡀𐡋𐡅𐡍𐡉𐡊𐡀) is the de facto and historical capital, as well as most populous city of Willink. Salonika is a port situated on the Karpophoros Peninsula, a 200 kilometer long landmass extending outward from the southern extension of Vóreios mountain range toward the Fospontis Sea. With a population of over 42 million persons, Salonika is the largest and most important city in the central Fospontia region of Willink, as well as the traditional seat of the Willinkian Basileus and the Willinkian Orthodox Church.
Salonika is believed to have been founded around 640 BC, and had attained prominence as a significant Norian polis of some 50,000 people by 300 BC; it was later incorporated into the Kingdom of Fospontia and Kingdom of Fillinkis, alternating as the capital with the cities of Epidaurum and Botrys from 200 BC to 1400 AD; in the 1400s in assumed position as the permanent seat of government. As the principle internal seaport of the Fospontis Sea, the city thereafter experienced massive population growth, swelling to over two million residents and becoming one of Haven's largest cities by the 16th century. For over six hundred years, Salonika has constituted one of Haven's most important centers of finance, trade, art, architecture and science, and is considered an alpha world city by the Pacitalian affairs publication The Economist.