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Therma or Thermē (Ancient Greek: Θέρμα, Θέρμη) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or Corinthians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated into Macedon), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegean Sea, the Thermaic Gulf. The city was built amidst mosquito-infested swampland, and its name derives from the Greek thérmē/thérma, "(malarial) fever". Therma was later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander. By that time the port of the previous capital of Macedonia, Pella, had begun silting up, so Cassander took advantage of the deep-water port to the northwest of Therma to expand the settlement. The site of Therma is tentatively located 3 miles (5 km) south of modern Thessaloniki around the suburb of modern Thermi.

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Therma
Στρατηγού Παπάγου, Thessaloniki Kalamaria Municipality

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Στάδιο Μ.Γ.Σ. Απόλλων Καλαμαριάς

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551 31 Thessaloniki, Kalamaria Municipality
Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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