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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... brought into the city , and the governor was supposed to check that these were properly paid . The guardian of the gates examined the produce and animals brought in by farmers and traders . Another official called the muhtesib regulated ...
... brought into the city , and the governor was supposed to check that these were properly paid . The guardian of the gates examined the produce and animals brought in by farmers and traders . Another official called the muhtesib regulated ...
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... brought in , badly beaten , before he was handed over to the janissary agha to be executed . ' Before he left , ' writes Haïroullah , ' forgive me for this , Your Majesty , I embraced him and kissed him , because in truth , he was an ...
... brought in , badly beaten , before he was handed over to the janissary agha to be executed . ' Before he left , ' writes Haïroullah , ' forgive me for this , Your Majesty , I embraced him and kissed him , because in truth , he was an ...
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... brought not only the genocide of the Jews and the destruction of their graves , but also the loss of hundreds of civilians shot by the Germans in mass executions , and hundreds more in the civil war that followed . ' Our city is full of ...
... brought not only the genocide of the Jews and the destruction of their graves , but also the loss of hundreds of civilians shot by the Germans in mass executions , and hundreds more in the civil war that followed . ' Our city is full of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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