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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... reported proudly back to London : ' In a few hours 2000 Jews were assembled around it , who read it . A Turkish soldier stood near it , in order that no one might tear it up . The chief of the soldiers , who placed a man there , desired ...
... reported proudly back to London : ' In a few hours 2000 Jews were assembled around it , who read it . A Turkish soldier stood near it , in order that no one might tear it up . The chief of the soldiers , who placed a man there , desired ...
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... reported that the scenery was more enticing than its commercial potential . The wooden quay was mouldering away , the harbour itself was uncharted and sandbanks were slowly silting up the mouth of the Vardar . Piracy deterred move- ment ...
... reported that the scenery was more enticing than its commercial potential . The wooden quay was mouldering away , the harbour itself was uncharted and sandbanks were slowly silting up the mouth of the Vardar . Piracy deterred move- ment ...
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... reported a journalist . ' If they hated each other before , they now loathe each other a hundred times as much as they did in the past . ' Over the next few months , the tension built up . The Greeks had made it clear that the city was ...
... reported a journalist . ' If they hated each other before , they now loathe each other a hundred times as much as they did in the past . ' Over the next few months , the tension built up . The Greeks had made it clear that the city was ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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