Veria

Veria, officially transliterated Veroia, historically also spelled Berea or Beroea, is a metropolis in Macedonia, northern Greece, placed 511 kilometres 318 miles north-northwest of the capital Athens and 73 km west-southwest of Thessalonica. Even by means of the requirements of Greece, Veria is an vintage metropolis; first referred to within the writings of Thucydides in 432 BC, there is evidence that it become populated as early as one thousand BC. Veria become an crucial possession for Philip II of Macedon father of Alexander the Great and later for the Romans.

Apostle Paul famously preached in the city, and its inhabitants had been among the first Christians within the Empire. Later, beneath the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, Veria changed into a center of Greek tradition and gaining knowledge of. Today Veria is a business middle of Central Macedonia, the capital of the local unit of Imathia and the seat of a Church of Greece Metropolitan bishop within the Ecumenical Patriarchate as well as a Latin Catholic titular see. The town has some of Byzantine monuments, in addition to submit-Byzantine church buildings built on Byzantine foundations.

The maximum huge Byzantine monument is the Anastasis Church Church of the Resurrection with itsspectacular frescoes" from 1315, bearing comparison with some of the greatest works of Palaiologan art in the primary Byzantine centres of Thessaloniki and Constantinople. Of the city's 13 mosques, 8 live to tell the tale, inclusive of the Old Metropolis, which had been converted into the Hunkar Mosque, in addition to the Orta Mosque, Mendrese Mosque, and the Mahmud Celebi Mosque.