Tsimiski
Busy commercial avenue of banks, department stores and patisseries, named for a Byzantine emperor.
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This guide to Tsimiski Street in Thessaloniki leaves the shop windows behind for tenth-century Constantinople, and a Byzantine general named John Tzimiskes, an empress, and a palace door. It touches on the patriarch who set a price on a crown, and on why a Greek city chose this name for its busiest avenue in the Balkan Wars era. Best heard on the pavement, with the traffic and the storefronts in view.
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