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Juana Mordó
Juana Mordó (April 26, 1899 – March 12, 1984) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and was an art dealer and gallery director in Madrid, Spain. Early years Juana Naar Scialom was born in Thessaloniki, Salonica, Greece on April 26, 1899. Daughter of Elise Scialom and León Naar, of Sephardi Jews, Sephardic descent, she moved to Paris with her family. Mordó's first marriage was to Albert Yacoel who worked in the textile trade in Paris. The marriage ended, and at the end of the 1920s she married Enrique Mordó. She moved to Berlin, with her second husband who ran an import and export business of oriental rugs. She lived in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany, Nazi power. Mordó, a Spanish passport holder, decided to leave for Switzerland with her husband shortly before the start of World War II. Arrival in Madrid In 1942, Enrique Mordó died of heart failure in Switzerland. By 1943, Mordó decided to move to Madrid with her mother. Shortly after their arrival her mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capital city, capital of the geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, the administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek language, Greek as (), literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the () or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Vardar, Axios. The Thessaloniki (municipality), municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical center, had a population of 317,778 in 2021, while the Thessaloniki metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
