Editing Thessaloniki (section)

====Recent history====
After [[WWII]] and the [[Greek Civil War]], heavy industrialization of the city's suburbs began in the mid-1950s.<ref>Note also the concomitant decrease of water cleanliness in Glenn Eldon Curtis, ed., ''Greece, a Country Study'', Volume 550, Issues 87-995 (Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, United States Department of the Army, 1995), 92–107. {{ISBN|0844408565}}</ref>

During the 1980s, a spate of factory shutdowns occurred, mostly of automobile manufacturers, such as [[Agricola (vehicles)|Agricola]], [[AutoDiana]], [[EBIAM]], [[Motoemil]], [[Pantelemidis-TITAN]] and [[C.AR (automobiles)|C.AR]]. Since the 1990s, companies took advantage of cheaper labour markets and more lax regulations than in other countries, and among the largest companies to shut down factories were [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pfi.gr/ |title=Pfi (Βφλ) |publisher=Pfi.gr |access-date=11 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313053025/http://www.pfi.gr/ |archive-date=13 March 2012 }}</ref> AVEZ pasta industry (one of the first industrial factories in northern Greece, built in 1926),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.makthes.gr/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10661 |title=Information is in Greek from one of the city's largest dailies |publisher=Makthes.gr |date=29 December 2007 |access-date=22 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228000324/http://www.makthes.gr/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10661 |archive-date=28 December 2008 }}</ref> [[Philkeram Johnson]], AGNO dairy and VIAMIL.

However, Thessaloniki still remains a major business hub in the Balkans and Greece, with a number of important Greek companies headquartered in the city, such as the [[Hellenic Vehicle Industry]] (ELVO), [[Namco (automobiles)|Namco]], [[Astra Airlines]], [[Ellinair]], [[Pyramis]] and [[MLS Multimedia]], which introduced the first Greek-built [[smartphone]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skai.gr/news/technology/article/207430/smartphone-made-in-greece-/ |title=Smartphone Made in Greece! |date=5 July 2012 |publisher=[[Skai TV]] |access-date=5 July 2012 |archive-date=8 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208002944/http://www.skai.gr/news/technology/article/207430/smartphone-made-in-greece-/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>