The city's port, the , is one of the largest ports in the Aegean and as a , it functions as a major gateway to the Balkan hinterland.
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Thessaloniki and , although smaller in size than , were the Ottoman Empire's most important trading hubs.
Some historians consider the Ottoman regime's invitation to Jewish settlement was a strategy to prevent the ethnic Greek population from dominating the city.