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 61
... formed a privileged ruling caste free of communal or government taxes . There was , of course , an Ottoman court system , presided over by the kadi , an appointed official , who dispensed justice throughout the city . The kadi courts ...
... formed a privileged ruling caste free of communal or government taxes . There was , of course , an Ottoman court system , presided over by the kadi , an appointed official , who dispensed justice throughout the city . The kadi courts ...
Page 95
... formed the town garrison , a total of somewhere between 1200 and 2000 men . In addition , there were thousands more Muslim men and boys mostly shopkeepers and tradesmen - who were enrolled purely nominally in one or other of the four ...
... formed the town garrison , a total of somewhere between 1200 and 2000 men . In addition , there were thousands more Muslim men and boys mostly shopkeepers and tradesmen - who were enrolled purely nominally in one or other of the four ...
Page 101
... formed part of the Mediterranean economy until late into the nineteenth century . During the long and complex struggle between Muslim and Catholic powers all sides bought and sold slaves , and the markets of the Barbary coast had their ...
... formed part of the Mediterranean economy until late into the nineteenth century . During the long and complex struggle between Muslim and Catholic powers all sides bought and sold slaves , and the markets of the Barbary coast had their ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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