AtD, p842-843 Salonica....walls come tumbling down

[Mark Kohut]

p.842-843  Salonica....first, this is the 'street name" for the city, very
typically Pynchon.
  wikipeida:
"Thessaloniki was, for many centuries, the military and administrative hub of the region, and beyond this the transportation link between Europe and the Levant.
The city layout changed after 1870, when the seaside fortifications gave way to extensive piers and unfortunately most of the ancient walls of the city were demolished including those surrounding the White Tower. During the subsequent 47 years, a period of great economic growth, the city's population exploded by 70%, reaching 135,000 in 1917. The city became an attraction for merchants, traders and refugees from across Europe, including Jews joining the city's earlier population. The authorities replaced part of the city's earliest Byzantine walls to allow it to expand, which it did, to the east and west along the coast."
   

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