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), also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.he municipality of Thessaloniki (Greek: Î´Î®Î¼Î¿Ï Î¸ÎµÏÎ±Î»Î¿Î½Î¯ÎºÎ·Ï) is the second most populous in Greece, after Athens, with a resident population of 325,182 (in 2011) and an area of 19.307 km 2 (7 sq mi), includes the municipal unit of Triandria.