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 5
... close to a blank slate so far as the intervening epochs were concerned . Salonica's Ottoman years , on the other hand , were a matter of living memory , for the Greek army had arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly ...
... close to a blank slate so far as the intervening epochs were concerned . Salonica's Ottoman years , on the other hand , were a matter of living memory , for the Greek army had arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly ...
Page 18
... close as it has ever been . If one walks from the White Tower along the wide seafront promenade which winds southeast along the bay , one quickly encounters a huge statue of Megas Alexandros - Alexander the Great . Mounted on horseback ...
... close as it has ever been . If one walks from the White Tower along the wide seafront promenade which winds southeast along the bay , one quickly encounters a huge statue of Megas Alexandros - Alexander the Great . Mounted on horseback ...
Page 44
... close link- age between the Slavs and the land ) or grazed their sheep , horses , oxen and donkeys on open ground . Centuries later , when the population had grown to more than one hundred thousand , the quasi - rural character of ...
... close link- age between the Slavs and the land ) or grazed their sheep , horses , oxen and donkeys on open ground . Centuries later , when the population had grown to more than one hundred thousand , the quasi - rural character of ...
Page 54
... pearl chokers worn " so close to one another and so thick one would think they were riveted on to one another " -the noise of musicians at parties and weddings , where men and women danced together 54 SALONICA , CITY O F GHOSTS.
... pearl chokers worn " so close to one another and so thick one would think they were riveted on to one another " -the noise of musicians at parties and weddings , where men and women danced together 54 SALONICA , CITY O F GHOSTS.
Page 56
... close together , strategically located between the commercial district and the city walls , their very density warding off intruders ? Or was it necessity - the upper slopes of the city being already owned and settled , even if more ...
... close together , strategically located between the commercial district and the city walls , their very density warding off intruders ? Or was it necessity - the upper slopes of the city being already owned and settled , even if more ...
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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