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 43
... lived there so the population had recovered at least up to the level it may have been when the Ottoman army burst in – roughly divided between Christians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly in the majority . The Muslims ...
... lived there so the population had recovered at least up to the level it may have been when the Ottoman army burst in – roughly divided between Christians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly in the majority . The Muslims ...
Page 304
... lived in such quarters [ defined as more than 80 % of one faith ] . The tendency to stick together was most pronounced among Muslims , but even so , under half of them lived in exclusively Muslim areas . In short , the census shows how ...
... lived in such quarters [ defined as more than 80 % of one faith ] . The tendency to stick together was most pronounced among Muslims , but even so , under half of them lived in exclusively Muslim areas . In short , the census shows how ...
Page 363
... lived within the walls in a space dominated by Jews and Muslims ; by 1932 more than half - and they were now mostly Christians - lived in the 36 refugee settlements , 7 Jewish quarters , and 13 mixed ones which stretched in a vast ...
... lived within the walls in a space dominated by Jews and Muslims ; by 1932 more than half - and they were now mostly Christians - lived in the 36 refugee settlements , 7 Jewish quarters , and 13 mixed ones which stretched in a vast ...
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