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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Page xi
... Ottoman miniature of child levy in a Balkan town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of Sultan Murad II ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ...
... Ottoman miniature of child levy in a Balkan town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of Sultan Murad II ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ...
Page xii
... Ottoman café in the Upper Town European officers witness the hanging of the alleged murderers of the two consuls following the disturbances of 1876 , by Pierre Loti Ottoman street life : hamal or porter , vendor of lemonade , and ...
... Ottoman café in the Upper Town European officers witness the hanging of the alleged murderers of the two consuls following the disturbances of 1876 , by Pierre Loti Ottoman street life : hamal or porter , vendor of lemonade , and ...
Page xv
... Ottoman city 210 The first map of the Ottoman city , 1882 , showing the new sea frontage 214-215 The late Ottoman city and its surroundings , c . 1910 240-241 The late Ottoman Balkan peninsula 299 Area destroyed by the 1917 fire 302-303 ...
... Ottoman city 210 The first map of the Ottoman city , 1882 , showing the new sea frontage 214-215 The late Ottoman city and its surroundings , c . 1910 240-241 The late Ottoman Balkan peninsula 299 Area destroyed by the 1917 fire 302-303 ...
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... Ottoman baths in Greece , or admire the distinguished mansion now used as a local public library in Plateia Romfei . But otherwise the Ottoman city has vanished , exciting little comment except among preservationists and scholars ...
... Ottoman baths in Greece , or admire the distinguished mansion now used as a local public library in Plateia Romfei . But otherwise the Ottoman city has vanished , exciting little comment except among preservationists and scholars ...
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... Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with ...
... Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with ...
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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