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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... Pasha , advised the Greek archbishop to surrender peacefully " otherwise I will destroy the place to its foundations as I did in Salonica . " " I swear to you on the God of Heaven and Earth and the Prophet Mohammed , " he went on ...
... Pasha , advised the Greek archbishop to surrender peacefully " otherwise I will destroy the place to its foundations as I did in Salonica . " " I swear to you on the God of Heaven and Earth and the Prophet Mohammed , " he went on ...
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... Pasha , whose illustrious career ended as governor of Salonica . Ishak Pasha spent his fortune on many noble edifices including several mosques , a hamam , a bridge over the Struma River , fountains and a dervish tekke . He was not ...
... Pasha , whose illustrious career ended as governor of Salonica . Ishak Pasha spent his fortune on many noble edifices including several mosques , a hamam , a bridge over the Struma River , fountains and a dervish tekke . He was not ...
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... Pasha brought in Jewish metallurgists from newly conquered Hungary , and within a few years the Siderokapsi mines had become one of the largest silver producers in the empire , with daily caravans making the fifty - mile journey to ...
... Pasha brought in Jewish metallurgists from newly conquered Hungary , and within a few years the Siderokapsi mines had become one of the largest silver producers in the empire , with daily caravans making the fifty - mile journey to ...
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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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