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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Page 334
... Muslim refugees from the hinterland . Between 1912 and 1924 its fate mirrored that of Islam in the city as a whole . Emigration - first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls ...
... Muslim refugees from the hinterland . Between 1912 and 1924 its fate mirrored that of Islam in the city as a whole . Emigration - first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls ...
Page 337
... Muslim settlers . The Greek police claimed Ottoman agents were tour- ing the villages telling Muslim peasants to sell up and leave . This may even have been happening in some places . Just four years earlier the Young Turks had ...
... Muslim settlers . The Greek police claimed Ottoman agents were tour- ing the villages telling Muslim peasants to sell up and leave . This may even have been happening in some places . Just four years earlier the Young Turks had ...
Page 339
... Muslim Community : The Final Phase Salonica represented safety in comparison with the violent countryside , but life for Muslims there did not return to anything close to normality . Most Muslim residents in the city kept their Ottoman ...
... Muslim Community : The Final Phase Salonica represented safety in comparison with the violent countryside , but life for Muslims there did not return to anything close to normality . Most Muslim residents in the city kept their Ottoman ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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