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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... ( Imperial War Museum ) Venizelos arrives by sea to lead Greece into the First World War , 9 October 1916. ( Imperial War Museum . ) A German biplane attracts crowds along the front . A refugee camp inside the city , 1916. ( Imperial War ...
... ( Imperial War Museum ) Venizelos arrives by sea to lead Greece into the First World War , 9 October 1916. ( Imperial War Museum . ) A German biplane attracts crowds along the front . A refugee camp inside the city , 1916. ( Imperial War ...
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... imperial capital ' . They were proud of their tongue – its flexibility and sweetness , so quick to bring the grandiloquent or bombastic down to earth with a ready diminutive . By contrast , the Jews further inland were derisively ...
... imperial capital ' . They were proud of their tongue – its flexibility and sweetness , so quick to bring the grandiloquent or bombastic down to earth with a ready diminutive . By contrast , the Jews further inland were derisively ...
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... Imperial Archaeological Museum 220 Imperial Ottoman Bank 154 , 157 , 240 , 241 , 266 imperial palace 15 Imperial Post 240 Incantadas , Las 213 , 214 , 216-19 India 17 , 54 , 315 industrialization 372 Inquisition , Inquisitors 47 , 51 ...
... Imperial Archaeological Museum 220 Imperial Ottoman Bank 154 , 157 , 240 , 241 , 266 imperial palace 15 Imperial Post 240 Incantadas , Las 213 , 214 , 216-19 India 17 , 54 , 315 industrialization 372 Inquisition , Inquisitors 47 , 51 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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