Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950The 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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In practice , however , the fighting prowess and internal discipline of what had once been the mainstay of the Ottoman infantry had degenerated over the years until the chief threat they posed was to the inhabitants of the empire ...
In practice , however , the fighting prowess and internal discipline of what had once been the mainstay of the Ottoman infantry had degenerated over the years until the chief threat they posed was to the inhabitants of the empire ...
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The British consul forecast that once the Skopje line was linked to the Austrian railway system , Salonica would become the leading centre of commerce in the Levant . “ Is it necessary to recall how the entire press was publishing on ...
The British consul forecast that once the Skopje line was linked to the Austrian railway system , Salonica would become the leading centre of commerce in the Levant . “ Is it necessary to recall how the entire press was publishing on ...
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I was once invited to an annual gathering of the Israelite Alliance , wrote a British journalist during the First World War . “ There were many hundreds of Jews there , male and female , and a great many of them were once removed only ...
I was once invited to an annual gathering of the Israelite Alliance , wrote a British journalist during the First World War . “ There were many hundreds of Jews there , male and female , and a great many of them were once removed only ...
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | HarperCollins, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0007120230, 9780007120239 |
| Length | 525 pages |
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