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 145
... hand to his head ' each time he addressed the pasha . On the other hand , Muslims of all ranks behaved with greater ease , and village peasants spoke as freely as dignatories visiting from the capital.5 If he was conscientious or ...
... hand to his head ' each time he addressed the pasha . On the other hand , Muslims of all ranks behaved with greater ease , and village peasants spoke as freely as dignatories visiting from the capital.5 If he was conscientious or ...
Page 297
... hand . Nevertheless , even the reduced Bulgarian presence constituted a daily challenge to the legiti- macy of Hellenic rule at a time when internationally the Great Powers had still not determined the city's future . There were almost ...
... hand . Nevertheless , even the reduced Bulgarian presence constituted a daily challenge to the legiti- macy of Hellenic rule at a time when internationally the Great Powers had still not determined the city's future . There were almost ...
Page 447
... hand - overs . Other things were making Douros unhappy too . Stock - takers and caretakers were doing deals to carve up the contents of shops , submitting inventories to his office that fell far short of the truth . The nightwatchmen ...
... hand - overs . Other things were making Douros unhappy too . Stock - takers and caretakers were doing deals to carve up the contents of shops , submitting inventories to his office that fell far short of the truth . The nightwatchmen ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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