Soap Opera History

During the late 30s, when the term “soap opera” was coined after the first radio broadcasts in Chicago, there is one urban legend according to which an American observer of the time wrote that the city’s scene reminded him of a soap opera.
Of course, nobody is in position to tell how much true this is, but the history of the city can be seen as one long theatrical play. Or fiction. Not only Thessaloniki’s multi –layered history is marked by periodic discontinuities that have altered the city’s physiognomy, but when the whole 23 centuries of its existence taken into account here there is a city unique not just in Europe, but in the entire history of humanity.
Devastating fires, plagues, janissaries, refugees and the cruelty of population exchange

In 1912 the Muslims expelled by the Greeks who returned in force, and in 1944 virtually all the Jews become carnage to the WWII’s brutal

Today with the multi – Culti being the norm, Salonica, as most in Greece love to call it, is a fast-growing modern commercial metropolis. Almost archetypically Greek, full of Greek 20th – century architecture and for that, the second city, the country’s co – capital may not be the most beautiful, but it is surely the hippest. Still suffused with a beautiful sadness, in a way it could easily compared with its 8th century self, a chaotic city, but a "chaos of vitality" nevertheless, as Mark Mazower notes in his book Salonica, City of