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|strgr=from Thessalos (a Thessalian) and [[νίκη]]; Thessalonice, a [[place]] in [[Asia]] Minor: [[Thessalonica]]. | |strgr=from Thessalos (a Thessalian) and [[νίκη]]; Thessalonice, a [[place]] in [[Asia]] Minor: [[Thessalonica]]. | ||
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|txtha=Θεσσαλονίκης, ἡ, [[Thessalonica]] ([[now]] Saloniki), a [[celebrated]] and [[populous]] [[city]], [[situated]] on the Thermaic Gulf, the [[capital]] of the [[second]] ([[there]] were [[four]]; cf. Livy 45:29)) [[division]] of [[Macedonia]] and the [[residence]] of a Roman [[governor]] and [[quaestor]]. It [[was]] [[anciently]] called Therme, [[but]] [[was]] rebuilt by [[Cassander]], the [[son]] of [[Antipater]], and called by its [[new]] [[name]] ([[which]] [[first]] appears in [[Polybius]] 23,4, 4) in honor of his [[wife]] [[Thessalonica]], the [[sister]] of [[Alexander]] the Great; cf. Strabo 7,330. Here Paul the [[apostle]] founded a Christian [[church]]: BB. DD. [[under]] the [[word]]; Lewin, St. Paul, i., 225ff.) | |||
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