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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... Christian faith . The Ottomans understood the term this way as well : when they talked about the ' community of Romans ' [ Rum millet ] they meant Orthodox Christians , not necessarily Greeks ; Rum was Byzantine Anatolia ; Rumeli the ...
... Christian faith . The Ottomans understood the term this way as well : when they talked about the ' community of Romans ' [ Rum millet ] they meant Orthodox Christians , not necessarily Greeks ; Rum was Byzantine Anatolia ; Rumeli the ...
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... Christian shrines for Muslim use could be seen not as deliberate humiliation and desecration - though it was naturally seen that way by Christians - but as a recognition by Muslims that God lingered already in the holy places of their ...
... Christian shrines for Muslim use could be seen not as deliberate humiliation and desecration - though it was naturally seen that way by Christians - but as a recognition by Muslims that God lingered already in the holy places of their ...
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... Christian learning flickered tenuously through the eighteenth century . Such intellectual and spiritual dis- cussions as were taking place within the empire were going on in the monasteries of Mount Athos itself , in the capital , or in ...
... Christian learning flickered tenuously through the eighteenth century . Such intellectual and spiritual dis- cussions as were taking place within the empire were going on in the monasteries of Mount Athos itself , in the capital , or in ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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