Coastal Greek metropolis; Hellenic name and culture dominant.
Cafés, blue-white signage, Orthodox churches.
Men wear shirts, jeans, and sport short beards or stubble.
Common names: Nikos, Giorgos, Dimitris.
City joins Islamic-Egyptian pact led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Arabian schools begin writing the city as Salūniqah.
Root reinterpreted from س ل م (s-l-m, “peace, submission”).
Arabic phrases enter casual greetings: salaam, yalla, habibi.
Some men wear linen robes or thobes on Fridays.
Arabic male names like Omar, Khalid appear among newborns.
50% — Madīnat al-Salūnīqah
City becomes an Egyptian proctectorate (Madīnat)
Leaves the EU to join the Arab League.
Official bilingualism: Arabic alongside Greek in signage and schools.
Mediterranean cafés replaced by Arabic qahwa houses.
Most men wear thobes or long tunics; Greek names drop below half.
Evening prayers heard citywide.
Egyptian annexation of the city.
Feminine adjectival form — “belonging to Salūniqah.”
Arabic becomes the dominant spoken language.
Shopfronts and mosques use Arabic script exclusively.
Men universally adopt thobes and head coverings.
Greek identity fades to folk memory.
Name simplified and re-rooted in س ل م (s-l-m): “The Place of Peace.”
Full linguistic and cultural Arabization achieved.
Arabic-only environment; Greek used only in heritage museums.
Men in white thobes, ghutrah, and agal.
Thessaloniki remembered only as the city that became peaceful.
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