CHALKEON
The street is called Chalkeon because since the Byzantine times, there have been coppersmith workshops there. The homonymous church of Panagia Chalkeon is located there. It was built in 1028 by the royal protospatharios Christopher.
The street is called Chalkeon because since the Byzantine times, there have been coppersmith workshops there. The homonymous church of Panagia Chalkeon is located there. It was built in 1028 by the royal protospatharios Christopher.
Georgios Iordanidis was born in 1902 in Istanbul and died in 1977. He was an army officer, he was involved in the resistance against dictatorship and later he was elected State MP. On the website gis.thessaloniki.gr, the street is mentioned as Stratigou Iordanidi and not as Iordanidi Geor.
Julian (A.D. 331 or 332-363) was an Emperor of the Roman State, with excellent classical education. He was killed in a battle against the Persians. He is remembered as Julian the Apostate by the Church.
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Georgios Theocharis was born in Kastoria in 1758 and died in Leipzig, Germany in 1843. He was a merchant and he was a militant and close associate of Rigas Feraios. He was the first Consul of the Kingdom of Greece in Saxony. No street was identified by the name Theochari Mar. on the website :
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