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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... Dimitrios , where are now the miracles which you once performed daily in your own country ? Why do you not help us ? Why do you not reappear to us ? Why , St Dimitrios , do you fail us and abandon us completely ? Can you not see the ...
... Dimitrios , where are now the miracles which you once performed daily in your own country ? Why do you not help us ? Why do you not reappear to us ? Why , St Dimitrios , do you fail us and abandon us completely ? Can you not see the ...
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... Dimitrios The Balkan Wars Come my friends and sit around . And listen to my new song , A poem pious and well - composed Festooned with the flowers of 1912 . Of our Thessaloniki I shall sing What happened there I'll set before you How ...
... Dimitrios The Balkan Wars Come my friends and sit around . And listen to my new song , A poem pious and well - composed Festooned with the flowers of 1912 . Of our Thessaloniki I shall sing What happened there I'll set before you How ...
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... Dimitrios church 320 , 329 St Dimitrios's Day 82 St George's Day 82 St Nicolas church 219 Salem , Emmanuel 232 Salik Pasha 145 , 148 Salikourtzis gang 384 Salonica Cooperative of Vegetable Growers 364-5 Salonikios , Mikos 398 Sami Bey ...
... Dimitrios church 320 , 329 St Dimitrios's Day 82 St George's Day 82 St Nicolas church 219 Salem , Emmanuel 232 Salik Pasha 145 , 148 Salikourtzis gang 384 Salonica Cooperative of Vegetable Growers 364-5 Salonikios , Mikos 398 Sami Bey ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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