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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... March . Then it was the turn of Regie Vardar - better known as ' Ramona ' – whose nearly 15,000 inhabitants were evicted in less than an hour shortly before dawn . The working - class Jewish neighbourhoods on the city's western ...
... March . Then it was the turn of Regie Vardar - better known as ' Ramona ' – whose nearly 15,000 inhabitants were evicted in less than an hour shortly before dawn . The working - class Jewish neighbourhoods on the city's western ...
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... March 1872 ; FO 195/240 , Blunt- Stratford Canning , 16 Oct. 1845 10 FO 195/952 , Wilkinson - Rumbold , 16 March 1872 11 FO 195/723 , Calvert - Bulwer , 20 Sept. 1862 ; 195/371 , Blunt - Canning , 22 July 1851 12 FO 78/651 , Blunt ...
... March 1872 ; FO 195/240 , Blunt- Stratford Canning , 16 Oct. 1845 10 FO 195/952 , Wilkinson - Rumbold , 16 March 1872 11 FO 195/723 , Calvert - Bulwer , 20 Sept. 1862 ; 195/371 , Blunt - Canning , 22 July 1851 12 FO 78/651 , Blunt ...
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... March 1959 , testimony of Chrysochoou , pp . 65-66 , 99-100 8 NA RG 59 / 868.00 / 1324 , Berry ( Istanbul ) -State , 6 Dec. 1943 , enclosing ' Memorandum of Dim . Andreades , Nomarch of Drama , Concerning the Situation in Macedonia , 18 ...
... March 1959 , testimony of Chrysochoou , pp . 65-66 , 99-100 8 NA RG 59 / 868.00 / 1324 , Berry ( Istanbul ) -State , 6 Dec. 1943 , enclosing ' Memorandum of Dim . Andreades , Nomarch of Drama , Concerning the Situation in Macedonia , 18 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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