Salonika

From incomplete latinization of Byzantine Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníkē), clipping of Ancient Greek Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníkē), named for Thessalonike daughter of Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and wife of Cassander of Macedonia, from Θεσσᾰλός (Thessălós, “Thessalian”) + νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”), possibly named for her birth on the anniversary of the Battle of Crocus Field. Used chiefly as a calque of Ottoman Turkish سلانیك (Selânik) but with occasional reference to modern Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníki).

Salonika

1. Alternative spelling of Salonica, synonym of Thessaloniki: a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

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Salonika f (Hebrew spelling סאלוניקה)

1. alternative form of Saloniko: Thessaloniki, Salonica (a port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece)
   • 2021, Katja Šmid, “El Ijo del Rey i el Nazir: La Istorya de Buda en Ladino”, in Shadarim‎^[1], →ISSN, page 29:

     Komo es byen savido, los autores sefaradis eskrivyeron munchas ovras literarias en la lingua djudeo-espanyola ke, sovre todo durante los siglos diezimueve i vente, se estanparon en letras rashi en las estamparias djudias ke se topavan en las sivdades kon grandes komunidades sefaradis del Oriente (Estambul, Izmir, Salonika i otras).

     As is well known, Sephardic authors have written many literary works in Judezmo that, above all during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were inscribed in Rashi in the Jewish inscriptions found in cities in the East with large Sephardic communities (Istanbul, Izmir, Salonica, & alibi).