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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... army away from the city in a minia- ture from the chronicle of Ioannis Skylitzes , eleventh - twelfth cen- tury AD Ottoman miniature of child levy in a Balkan town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of Sultan Murad ...
... army away from the city in a minia- ture from the chronicle of Ioannis Skylitzes , eleventh - twelfth cen- tury AD Ottoman miniature of child levy in a Balkan town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of Sultan Murad ...
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... army officers, Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists. Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece I had read, usually as ancestral enemies, but the Jews were in general remarkable only for their ...
... army officers, Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists. Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece I had read, usually as ancestral enemies, but the Jews were in general remarkable only for their ...
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... army officers , Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists . Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece I had read , usually as ancestral enemies , but the Jews were in general remarkable only for ...
... army officers , Greek and Bulgarian merchants and Jewish industrialists . Turks and Bulgarians figured prominently in the histories of Greece I had read , usually as ancestral enemies , but the Jews were in general remarkable only for ...
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... army gathered on the plains outside the walls . Only Saint Dimitrios saved the day : thanks to his inspiration , the defenders suspended curtains below the ramparts to blunt the shock of the missiles hitting the walls , while armed ...
... army gathered on the plains outside the walls . Only Saint Dimitrios saved the day : thanks to his inspiration , the defenders suspended curtains below the ramparts to blunt the shock of the missiles hitting the walls , while armed ...
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... army sent out by the emperor and by the time of his death in 1326 he had established his capital in the former Byzantine city of Bursa . Feud- ing between the Byzantine Palaeologues and Cantacuzenes gave his successors their chance in ...
... army sent out by the emperor and by the time of his death in 1326 he had established his capital in the former Byzantine city of Bursa . Feud- ing between the Byzantine Palaeologues and Cantacuzenes gave his successors their chance in ...
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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