Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950HarperCollins, 2004 - 525 pages The history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: 500 years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries. Written with a Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica will evoke the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded. For centuries Muslims, Christians, and Jews have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their predecessors, and the result is a city of cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands of both Europe and the East. |
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... Abdul Mecid was not a man overly concerned with convention : he had shocked people a few years earlier by attending the wedding of the daughter of one of the leading Christians at his court , and had even graced with his presence a ball ...
... Abdul Mecid was not a man overly concerned with convention : he had shocked people a few years earlier by attending the wedding of the daughter of one of the leading Christians at his court , and had even graced with his presence a ball ...
Page 144
... Abdul Mecid did not stay in the governor's residence on his 1859 visit . A sprawling wooden building in the centre of the town , in a walled enclosure with gardens , outbuild- ings , and offices , it was not a particularly grand or awe ...
... Abdul Mecid did not stay in the governor's residence on his 1859 visit . A sprawling wooden building in the centre of the town , in a walled enclosure with gardens , outbuild- ings , and offices , it was not a particularly grand or awe ...
Page 157
... Abdul Mecid was delayed by the many petitions presented to him , but eventually his carriage drew up outside the gates to Abbott's property . He was just about to place his foot on the carpeted ground when the skies clouded over , and ...
... Abdul Mecid was delayed by the many petitions presented to him , but eventually his carriage drew up outside the gates to Abbott's property . He was just about to place his foot on the carpeted ground when the skies clouded over , and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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