events
A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
Related Wikipedia articles
Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917
1917 fire which destroyed two-thirds of Thessaloniki, Greece
The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 destroyed two thirds of the city of Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, leaving more than 70,000 homeless. The fire burned for 32 hours and destroyed 9,500 houses within an extent of 1 square kilometer. Half the Jewish population…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Thessaloniki
Second-largest city in Greece
Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek as i Symprotévousa, literally "the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)