Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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... Anatolia , the Via Egnatia , it straddled . Poised between Europe and Asia , the Mediterranean and the Balkans , the interface of two climatic zones brings Salonica highly changeable air pressure throughout the year . Driving winter ...
... Anatolia , the Via Egnatia , it straddled . Poised between Europe and Asia , the Mediterranean and the Balkans , the interface of two climatic zones brings Salonica highly changeable air pressure throughout the year . Driving winter ...
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... Anatolia - the men of Christ had several hundred more years to proselytize before confronting a serious rival in Islam . Infinitely more important in the long run than the booty - hunters were the nomadic tribes who found Salonica on ...
... Anatolia - the men of Christ had several hundred more years to proselytize before confronting a serious rival in Islam . Infinitely more important in the long run than the booty - hunters were the nomadic tribes who found Salonica on ...
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... Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That the empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its ene- mies , and the judicious bribery of foreign allies . In the early fourteenth century , however , as Catalan ...
... Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That the empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its ene- mies , and the judicious bribery of foreign allies . In the early fourteenth century , however , as Catalan ...
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... Anatolia , but he preferred a life of spiritual contemplation , tried twice to withdraw from the throne , and was eventually buried in the mausoleum he had designed himself at Bursa , a building of austere beauty , with an earth ...
... Anatolia , but he preferred a life of spiritual contemplation , tried twice to withdraw from the throne , and was eventually buried in the mausoleum he had designed himself at Bursa , a building of austere beauty , with an earth ...
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... Anatolia , his troops gathered outside the walls , while camel - trains brought up siege engines , stone- throwers , bombards and scaling ladders . The sultan took up a position on high ground which overlooked the citadel , and sent a ...
... Anatolia , his troops gathered outside the walls , while camel - trains brought up siege engines , stone- throwers , bombards and scaling ladders . The sultan took up a position on high ground which overlooked the citadel , and sent a ...
Contents
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Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles | 64 |
Janissaries and Other Plagues | 94 |
Commerce and the Greeks | 114 |
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders | 133 |
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
In the Frankish Style | 209 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
Glossary | 469 |
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