Konak (Thessaloniki)

The Konak (Greek Konaki Κονάκι or Diikitirio Thessaloniki Διοικητήριο Θεσσαλονίκης ) is an administrative building in Thessaloniki.

History

There was a late Roman emperor's palace on the site of the building. This was still present as a ruin, when the building was built in its place. It was built by order of Sultan Abdulhamid II by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli between the years 1891 and 1892 as a new Konak. The architecture of the building follows the eclecticism.

With an increase of playful eclectic end of the roof was replaced by a neo-classical with a hipped roof, while the building appears more severe.

Use

The building was planned as Konak and used. It housed from 1907 an Ottoman law school. 1911 was the Konak as a hostel for the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V. After the Ottoman army was defeated in the Balkan wars, the capitulation was signed at the Konak.

The Konak was the property of the Greek state, this used it between 1912 and 1929 as General Administration of Macedonia, later up to its abolition as the official residence of the Greek Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace.

Since the administrative reform in 2010 resided in the building of the Secretary-General of the decentralized authority of Macedonia and Thrace.