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 10
... fact that there had once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman and an Islamic city atop the Greek and Jewish ones . How striking then it is that memoirs often describe the place very differently from such scholarly or official ...
... fact that there had once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman and an Islamic city atop the Greek and Jewish ones . How striking then it is that memoirs often describe the place very differently from such scholarly or official ...
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... fact it had been officially known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912.1 It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek etymology is perfectly straightforward . The daughter of a ...
... fact it had been officially known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912.1 It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek etymology is perfectly straightforward . The daughter of a ...
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... fact before the sixteenth century they probably ruled over more Christians than they did Muslims . Their form of Islam was a kind of border religion spread both by warriors dedicated to Holy War and through religious fraternities which ...
... fact before the sixteenth century they probably ruled over more Christians than they did Muslims . Their form of Islam was a kind of border religion spread both by warriors dedicated to Holy War and through religious fraternities which ...
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... for the latter . Written off as an embarrassment by later Greek commentators , the pro - Turkish current in late Byzantine politics was in fact a powerful one for the Ottomans , who could be seen as 26 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
... for the latter . Written off as an embarrassment by later Greek commentators , the pro - Turkish current in late Byzantine politics was in fact a powerful one for the Ottomans , who could be seen as 26 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
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... - smelling rose to sniff . When Murad asked if he could keep it , God told him that the rose was Salonica and that he had decreed it should be his . In fact Murad had set his heart on the city 28 SALONICA , GHOSTS CITY OF.
... - smelling rose to sniff . When Murad asked if he could keep it , God told him that the rose was Salonica and that he had decreed it should be his . In fact Murad had set his heart on the city 28 SALONICA , GHOSTS CITY OF.
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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