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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... carry away a horse and rider , or sluice out the poorly buried bones of the dead in the cemeter- ies beyond the walls.4 From earliest times , too , fresh water has been channelled through fountains , aqueducts and underground pipes ...
... carry away a horse and rider , or sluice out the poorly buried bones of the dead in the cemeter- ies beyond the walls.4 From earliest times , too , fresh water has been channelled through fountains , aqueducts and underground pipes ...
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... carried off Christian children to be brought up as Muslims— which must have caused distress . But returning in 1393 , Archbishop Isidoros described the situation as better than he had anticipated , while the Russian monk Ignatius of ...
... carried off Christian children to be brought up as Muslims— which must have caused distress . But returning in 1393 , Archbishop Isidoros described the situation as better than he had anticipated , while the Russian monk Ignatius of ...
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... carried on in Spanish in Hebrew characters ... And so it is not hard for Jews to know Spanish even if they are born outside Spain . " 13 In Salonica , there was a religious variant - Ladino - and a vernacular which was so identified ...
... carried on in Spanish in Hebrew characters ... And so it is not hard for Jews to know Spanish even if they are born outside Spain . " 13 In Salonica , there was a religious variant - Ladino - and a vernacular which was so identified ...
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... carrying trade , helped to build up Split as a major port for Venetian dealings with the Levant , and wielded their Ottoman connections whenever the Papacy and the Inquisition turned nasty . They combined commerce with espionage and ran ...
... carrying trade , helped to build up Split as a major port for Venetian dealings with the Levant , and wielded their Ottoman connections whenever the Papacy and the Inquisition turned nasty . They combined commerce with espionage and ran ...
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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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