Therma

THERMA [THESSALONICA]

(Θέρμη). A town in Macedonia, afterwards called Thessalonica (see Thessalonica), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegaean Sea, called Thermaĭcus or Thermaeus Sinus from the town at its head. This gulf was also called Macedonicus Sinus; its modern name is the Gulf of Salonica.