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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... Turkey as their handiwork - the final revenge , as it were , of Sabbatai Zevi , and the unexpected fulfilment of his dreams . In fact , many of the Ma'min themselves had mixed feelings at what was happening in nationalist Turkey : some ...
... Turkey as their handiwork - the final revenge , as it were , of Sabbatai Zevi , and the unexpected fulfilment of his dreams . In fact , many of the Ma'min themselves had mixed feelings at what was happening in nationalist Turkey : some ...
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... Turkey lies in redistributing the Balkan populations by nationality among each of the states among whom European Turkey was divided at Bucharest . It is a sad but definitive liquidation of a situation which neither Turkey nor Europe has ...
... Turkey lies in redistributing the Balkan populations by nationality among each of the states among whom European Turkey was divided at Bucharest . It is a sad but definitive liquidation of a situation which neither Turkey nor Europe has ...
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... TURKEY Ionian Sea Greek acquisitions from Bulgaria Patras Athens Greek acquisitions from Turkey by Sevres Treaty ( restored to Turkey by Lausanne Treaty ) CRETE Yugoslav acquisitions from Austria - Hungary Yugoslav acquisitions from ...
... TURKEY Ionian Sea Greek acquisitions from Bulgaria Patras Athens Greek acquisitions from Turkey by Sevres Treaty ( restored to Turkey by Lausanne Treaty ) CRETE Yugoslav acquisitions from Austria - Hungary Yugoslav acquisitions from ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | HarperCollins, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0007120230, 9780007120239 |
| Length | 525 pages |
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