Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Sprawling university campus founded in the nineteen-twenties around an Ottoman-era building.
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This guide to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki starts with a plan drawn up by Eleftherios Venizelos, and a ranking of Greek universities that did not turn out as written. It follows the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory to Smyrna in the early nineteen-twenties, where he was stocking a library with books and instruments shipped from Germany. Best heard near the campus's oldest building, raised under Ottoman rule.
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