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 114
... carried off 1337 Christians , 2239 Turks and 3935 Jews . That was not the only really serious outbreak : in 1762 10-12,000 people , roughly 16–20 % of the population , died . The figures were similar in 1781 when as a survivor put it ...
... carried off 1337 Christians , 2239 Turks and 3935 Jews . That was not the only really serious outbreak : in 1762 10-12,000 people , roughly 16–20 % of the population , died . The figures were similar in 1781 when as a survivor put it ...
Page 192
... carried them bodily out of the boat before fighting over who would have the right to carry his belongings to the hotel . Melville , who visited the town briefly a few years later , watched in fascination the ' vast crowd and tumult ...
... carried them bodily out of the boat before fighting over who would have the right to carry his belongings to the hotel . Melville , who visited the town briefly a few years later , watched in fascination the ' vast crowd and tumult ...
Page 326
... carry off Las Incantadas in 1864 were banished for ever . Long vistas down regular thoroughfares would carry traffic ... carried through the city on intersecting roads which ran parallel with the shoreline . There remained , however ...
... carry off Las Incantadas in 1864 were banished for ever . Long vistas down regular thoroughfares would carry traffic ... carried through the city on intersecting roads which ran parallel with the shoreline . There remained , however ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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