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Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece. It is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial, and political center, and a major transportation hub for Greece and southeastern Europe, notably through the Port of Thessaloniki. The city was founded in 315 B.C.E. by Cassander of Macedon, and was an important metropolis by the Roman period, and the second largest and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire. Thessaloniki exhibits Byzantine architecture, including numerous Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments, a World Heritage Site, and several Roman, Ottoman, and Sephardic Jewish structures.

Mackerel is a common name for various swift-moving, marine fish of the Scrombidae family of the Perciformes order, with the exception of the similar, but deeper-bodied tunas (tribe Thunnini) and the bonitos (tribe Sardini) that are also part of the same family. Mackerels, and all of the members of the Scrombidae family, are characterized by a long, slender, streamlined body; deeply forked tails; a very narrow portion of body right before the tail; and finlets behind the second dorsal and the anal fins.