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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... once existed . The old houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam ...
... once existed . The old houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam ...
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... 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 excep- tional situation of this ...
... 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 excep- tional situation of this ...
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... once invited to an annual gathering of the Israelite Alliance , ' wrote a British journalist during the First World War . " There were many hun- dreds of Jews there , male and female , and a great many of them were once removed only ...
... once invited to an annual gathering of the Israelite Alliance , ' wrote a British journalist during the First World War . " There were many hun- dreds of Jews there , male and female , and a great many of them were once removed only ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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