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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... the late Kostas Tomanas—wh0se writings have done so nmch to bring the city to life. I am grateful for their assistance to the librarians of the following institutions: the Institute for Balkan Studies, the Centre for the ix.
... the late Kostas Tomanas—wh0se writings have done so nmch to bring the city to life. I am grateful for their assistance to the librarians of the following institutions: the Institute for Balkan Studies, the Centre for the ix.
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... Kostas Tomanas - whose writ- ings have done so much to bring the city to life . I am grateful for their assistance to the librarians of the following institutions : the Institute for Balkan Studies , the Centre ix Acknowledgements.
... Kostas Tomanas - whose writ- ings have done so much to bring the city to life . I am grateful for their assistance to the librarians of the following institutions : the Institute for Balkan Studies , the Centre ix Acknowledgements.
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... Centre for the History of the City of Thessaloniki , the Newspaper Library in the Thessaloniki Municipal Library , the Historical Archives of Macedonia ; in Athens , the Greek Literary and Historical Archives ( ELIA ) , the Archive of ...
... Centre for the History of the City of Thessaloniki , the Newspaper Library in the Thessaloniki Municipal Library , the Historical Archives of Macedonia ; in Athens , the Greek Literary and Historical Archives ( ELIA ) , the Archive of ...
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... centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda ( Courtesy of Mr. H. Yiakoumis and Editions Potamos ) The new city Huts of Asia ...
... centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda ( Courtesy of Mr. H. Yiakoumis and Editions Potamos ) The new city Huts of Asia ...
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... centre encapsulated the city's endless met-amorphoses—contained some of the earliest mural mosaics to be found in the eastern Mediterranean. Next to it stood an elegant pencil-thin minaret, nearly one hundred and twenty feet tall. Like ...
... centre encapsulated the city's endless met-amorphoses—contained some of the earliest mural mosaics to be found in the eastern Mediterranean. Next to it stood an elegant pencil-thin minaret, nearly one hundred and twenty feet tall. Like ...
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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