Thessaloniki - What to See in Only Two Weeks

[@ΜιλτιάδηςΜπαλτατζής]

💙Macedonia 🇬🇷

[@tchussaini1]

Great video! Can't get enough of this stunning scenery!

[@aggelos3642]

raki and ouzo are different drinks because raki is made from grape skins in ancient greek the grape skin is called rax so we have rax from rakos. ouzo is a drink made by distilling alcohol with various spices. there is also tsipouro which is made from the skins of the grape after they have been pressed to release the must. I also want to write about the meatballs, they are from an ancient recipe called KOFTOS, which means minced meat that was made into balls and cooked in oil.

[@apmoy70]

Yeah, ouzo is pharmaceutical grade pure alcohol with flavouring. The best ouzo is from the island of Lesvos, especially from the area of Plomari

[@aggelos3642]

Yes is the best​@@apmoy70

[@crinjogria]

Πατριώτη: 1) Το ρακί, προέρχεται από την αραβική λέξη αράκ (عرق) = ιδρώτας, και ΑΡΧΙΚΑ δήλωνε αλκοολούχο ποτό που παράγεται από την απόσταξη χυμού από τον κορμό της χουρμαδιάς (η διαδικασία της απόσταξης θυμίζει εφίδρωση). Εξελίχθηκε να σημαίνει αλκοολούχο ποτό, προϊόν απόσταξης γενικώς. 2) Όσο για το κεφτές το πήραμε από τα τουρκικά (köfte : κιοφτέ), που κι αυτοί το πήραν από τα περσικά (کوفته) και προέρχεται από την ινδοευρωπαϊκή ρίζα *(s)kop- χτυπάω, αλέθω. Κατά πάσαν πιθανότητα το ρήμα κόπτω προέρχεται από την ίδια ρίζα. Συγγνώμη που στο χαλάω... Επίσης ξέρω ότι δεν πρόκειται να σε πείσω, ανήκεις σε μια ειδική κατηγορία. Γράφω για τους υπόλοιπους ΥΓ Ράξ (και ρώξ) σημαίνει απλούστατα ρώγα. Ειδική λέξη για το φλούδι του σταφυλιού δεν υπάρχει, υπάρχει η λέξη στέμφυλα, που αρχικά ήταν ο πολτός που μένει αφού οι ελιές έχουν περάσει από το λιοτρίβι, εξελίχθηκε να σημαίνει και τον πολτό των σταφυλιών μετά το πατητήρι. Στη μετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα, στο Δευτερονόμιον, υπάρχει η φράση "οϊνος από στεμφύλων", που προφανώς σημαίνει ρακί.

[@AlexP-o4x]

Good videos and good knowledge of history thanks.

[@antoniotrialonis7957]

Beautiful ❤

[@Raven1821Patras]

Thank you for showing those ancient churches. Because of this video, I discovered some cool places to visit on my trip Spring 2025.

[@georgiosa.9893]

My hometown!!! ❤❤❤

[@ΚώσταςΖωγράφος-θ5σ]

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΊΚΗ ❤ ❤ ❤ Η Συμβασιλευουσα της Βυζαντινής Αυτοκρατορίας.... Η Συνπρωτευουσα της Ελλάδας.... Η Νύμφη του ΘΕΡΜΑΙΚΟΥ.... Η Πρωτεύουσα της μίας και μοναδικής ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ... Η ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΜΑΣ... ❤ ❤ ❤

[@ΑποστολοςΚαραλιολιος-σ9μ]

Αγάπη από Μακεδονία Ελλάδα ❤❤❤

[@paganpoet3]

33:49 Her father was in did Phillip the II and her mother was Nikisipoleos of Feres a Thessalian woman who was one of his wifes.She died 3 weeks after she give birth to Thessaloniki. In 333 b.c Phillip the II won a battle against the Phocians in Thessaly region. Thessaloniki was born exactly a year later in 332 b.c and Phillip named her "Thessalon Niki" From the words "Thessaly-thessalians" and "Niki" (Victory). She was murdered by one of her Sons...

[@RovexHD]

Fantastic city with many dimensions ! It also blows Athens out of the water for me.

[@FastEddieDice]

Agreed

[@chrisgreece5328]

Welcome to Thessaloniki!!

[@ΒασιλικηΜαστορακη]

THESSALONIKI❤️MACEDONIA❤️GREECE🏹❤️❤️ THESSALONIKI I LOVE YOU🏹❤️🇬🇷❤️🇬🇷 ✨Thanks for the lovely video🙏🇬🇷🎶🪕🎶🪕✨🇬🇷☺️Θεσσαλονικη αγαπη μου🏹❤️❤️🇬🇷☺️

[@leosedf]

My home😢😢😢 i left in 2017 to live in London. Haven't visited for a long time. Maybe it's time now.

[@simtsa]

Your camera is Fantastic! I don't know if is the len that make those beautiful colors or the camera but is very good.

[@FastEddieDice]

iphone 15 pro. the colors come from greece :)

[@So-pp9nq]

Thanks for sharing your discoveries with us. Looking forward to your Corfu journey! In the meantime, what is the name of the Halkidiki best souvlaki restaurant? Dis you mentioned it?

[@FastEddieDice]

Sta Kokkinoyia tou Saki is the best souvlaki restaurant :)

[@So-pp9nq]

@@FastEddieDice Swift reply, thanks :)

[@alexandra23370]

We wait some shorts only with the food of Thessaloniki and the dentex.

[@emmandev]

One of the best videos on Thessaloniki I have ever seen. I'm a local and I approve this video. Btw, the chinese neighbourhood is one of the worst, next time find an apartment somewhere else.

[@FastEddieDice]

Private parking was the selling point for me

[@mr.d8383]

​@@FastEddieDiceprivate parking?You are lucky that you still had your car after parking it for two weeks in that area!😅

[@FastEddieDice]

@@mr.d8383 😂

[@yourgopnikcomrade]

12:47 The reason there were so many Jews is the Reconquista (1492), that drove thousands of Jews to seek refuge in the Ottoman empire ; after all they had been living side by side with Muslims, and thriving for centuries until the Iberian peninsula was taken over by the Chistians. The Sultan famously said (he is supposed to have said, anyway )"The Spanish king's loss, my gain" and settled them in Thessaloniki, that had never recovered from the sack of 1430, when it was conquered by he Ottomans. So, rather than trying to keep the Greek population at check, the Sultan was actually repopulating an almost abandoned city.

[@history_repeats8201]

He was afraid of the Greeks gaining too much power in the city and he wanted to use the Jews against the Orthodox who were the merchants and shop owners at the time otherwise he had no lost love for Jews.

[@justsomejo]

Relatively new to the channel since the last set of Istanbul videos popped up on my feed. Whats the background to FastEddieDice being the traveller he is?

[@kyrosharas]

What a clever + educated guy !! Always very amusing videos ! A happy man, happy videos . Next, the video from Romania. My Super Millionaire Grangfather + Grandmother came from Smyrna only with their clothes. I had only Aunts, Aunts, Aunts and no Uncles at all . Do you understand why ? My Grandfather also died after ~5 years on the street from stroke , when he realized, that they would never go back ! But , I must confess, that this man is something else ! Certainly, there are more. Now a minority. In the future, maybe more .

[@GeoNikosDa]

What is the name of the bar with the black beer tank?

[@FastEddieDice]

Beer school

[@horror11]

in ottoman times the religions was harshly seperated by law and each group was only allowed to live in their respective quarters, which was the muslim in upper town, the jews in the center and the greek in the outskirts. ataturk was born and lived in the jewish quarter and his house still stands and serves today as turkish consulate and museum. turks dont want to accept the fact that the "father of turks" who abolished the caliphate and banned islam in the public was a "crypto"jew but the location of his house gives it away.

[@FastEddieDice]

actually, ataturk wasn't born in that house, despite the official narrative. he was born here: el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CF%81%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%AE_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B7%CF%82#/maplink/0

[@horror11]

@@FastEddieDice actually he was born in 1881 in thessaloniki , both the museumsite and also the wiki claim that and its also written on the house itself: "The house is the birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was born here in 1881.[2] It is a three-floor house with a courtyard on 24 Apostolou Pavlou Street, next to the Turkish Consulate. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk_Museum_(Thessaloniki) "Atatürk was born either in the Ahmet Subaşı neighbourhood or at a house (preserved as a museum) in Islahhane Street (now Apostolou Pavlou Street) in the Koca Kasım Pasha neighbourhood in Salonica (Selanik),[30] Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki in present-day Greece). " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk

[@horror11]

@@FastEddieDice somehow my reply did not apear: ataturk was born in 1881 in thessaloniki in that house, thats what wiki and the museumsite claims : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk_Museum_(Thessaloniki)

[@horror11]

@@FastEddieDice where did u get ur info from, i couldnt find it anywhere but i can see why some would want him to be born elsewhere.

[@FastEddieDice]

@@horror11 these sites are often wrong. firstly, no one knew when ataturk was born, including his own mother. he DID grow up in the house in thessaloniki. but he was born in chrysavgí, where the father and the brother of kemal's mother zübeydeh hanım were local landlords. after 3-4 months, the family moved to the now-famous house in thessaloniki. head to chrysavgí and talk to the old people who remember the old people talking about this in the village cafe. or talk to a local historian. the official narrative is thanks to the always-weird greek-turkish politics

[@RovexHD]

The white tower is the symbol of the city, but arguably also one of the less interesting sights.

[@MrVolverano]

Nice video, but the best part is 42:40 where the kids are wearing Aris Salonika jerseys!!! Yeah!

[@sabflash]

Menorarah in flames twice? Same sculpteur ok but why

[@FastEddieDice]

Laziness?

[@ΠαναγιωτηςΤοπουζιδης-σ7ο]

Occupiers under the occupier.

[@arisbel]

Two weeks?? Two days is more than enough

[@FastEddieDice]

2nd largest city in Greece, >1,000,000 people, 16 UNESCO sites (more than Athens), 30+ museums, Old Town Ana Poli & other great neighborhoods, Byzantine, Roman, Ottoman, Sephardic Jewish structures, and a ton of must-eats. Beaches. Boats. Festivals. Concerts. Why do in 2 days what you can do in 1?

[@arisbel]

@@FastEddieDice Byzantine era sights, all similar to each other, can be condensed into one morning. Evening of that same day spent by the new promenade, the only truly beautiful place. Beaches, where the sea is in fact safe to swim, are located in Chalkidiki, min. 60km away. Dive into sea at the city's seafront at your peril. So, yes, a day wil probably be enough. P.S.: "Must-eats" isn't really a reason to visit any one city, unless you have never enjoyed a decent meal in your life.

[@FastEddieDice]

@@arisbel if you have only one day for thessaloniki, have at least these two meals: gyro + soutzoukakia @ diavasi, and bird’s liver at stou mitsou. thank me later

[@RovexHD]

I was in Thessaloniki for a week. It's not enough to visit every museum.

[@nickkoss9384]

Thessalwn Niki

[@moskit529]

Enjoy South Macedonia❤

[@billiosi7448]

You are not Macedonian.

[@history_repeats8201]

Troll with severe but hurt detected proceed to your closest pharmacy for vaseline treatment

[@nickkoss9384]

Macedonia is GREECE and always was. There's no South or east West, there's Thessaloniki, Macedonia, northern Greece.