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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 88
Page ix
... hands . Maria Vassilikou , Bea Lewkowicz , Bernard Pierron , Rena Molho , Dimitris Livanios and Iakovos Mihailidis were kind enough to provide me with copies of their unpublished dissertations . In Athens , Aegina and Tinos , Fay Zika ...
... hands . Maria Vassilikou , Bea Lewkowicz , Bernard Pierron , Rena Molho , Dimitris Livanios and Iakovos Mihailidis were kind enough to provide me with copies of their unpublished dissertations . In Athens , Aegina and Tinos , Fay Zika ...
Page 5
... hand , were a matter of living memory , for the Greek army had arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly in the yards outside their homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent ...
... hand , were a matter of living memory , for the Greek army had arrived only in 1912 and those grandmothers chatting quietly in the yards outside their homes had probably been born subjects of Sultan Abdul Hamid . The still magnificent ...
Page 13
... fluent Greek , for the city's position within the modern nation - state is unquestioned : the story of its passage from Ottoman to Greek hands has become ancient history . PART I The Rose of Sultan Murad I Conquest , 13 Introduction.
... fluent Greek , for the city's position within the modern nation - state is unquestioned : the story of its passage from Ottoman to Greek hands has become ancient history . PART I The Rose of Sultan Murad I Conquest , 13 Introduction.
Page 18
... hand , he looks down along the five- lane highway ( also named after him ) out of town , towards the airport , the beaches and the weekend resorts of the Chalkidiki peninsula . The statue rises heroically above the acrobatic ...
... hand , he looks down along the five- lane highway ( also named after him ) out of town , towards the airport , the beaches and the weekend resorts of the Chalkidiki peninsula . The statue rises heroically above the acrobatic ...
Page 20
... Hand- book in 1854 , " including pheasants , woodcocks , wildfowl etc. " Cutting wide loops through the fields the Vardar river to the west runs low in summer , sinuous and fast in the winter months , too powerful to be eas- ily ...
... Hand- book in 1854 , " including pheasants , woodcocks , wildfowl etc. " Cutting wide loops through the fields the Vardar river to the west runs low in summer , sinuous and fast in the winter months , too powerful to be eas- ily ...
Contents
17 | |
32 | |
46 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abdul Albanian Anatolia army arrived Asia Minor Athens Balkan became British building Bulgarian Byzantine cafés cemetery centre century chief rabbi Christian church city's consul converted crowd Dimitrios eastern Edirne Egnatia Europe European faith fire forced French German Greece Greek hand houses hundred imperial inhabitants Islam Istanbul Italian Izmir janissaries Jewish Jewish community Jews journalist land later lived London loniki Ma'min Macedonia Marranos Mehmed merchants Mertzios Mevlevi minarets modern Molho mosque municipal Murad Muslim neighbourhood officers Orthodox Ottoman authorities Ottoman city Ottoman empire Paris Pasha peasants police political population Porte quarter refugees religion religious remained reported Russian Salonica Salonique streets sultan synagogue Thessa Thessaloniki thousand tion tis Thessalonikis took trade travellers troops Turkey Turkish turned Upper Town Vardar Venetian Venizelist Venizelos villages Vlachs walls women workers wrote YDIP Young Turks Yusuf Bey Zevi