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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... ( known also according to the guidebooks as the Market Baths , the Women's Baths , or the Yahudi Hamam , the Bath of the Jews ) , the decrepit spice ware- houses on Odos Egyptou ( Egypt Street ) , the dealers still installed in the old ...
... ( known also according to the guidebooks as the Market Baths , the Women's Baths , or the Yahudi Hamam , the Bath of the Jews ) , the decrepit spice ware- houses on Odos Egyptou ( Egypt Street ) , the dealers still installed in the old ...
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... known history unparalleled in Europe . Enjoying the favour of the sultans , the Jews , as the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most ...
... known history unparalleled in Europe . Enjoying the favour of the sultans , the Jews , as the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most ...
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... known to posterity by his later name, Kyrill) and Methodius, themselves possibly of Slavic descent, who drew up a new alphabet, adapted from Greek, translated the Christian liturgy into Slavic and spread Christ's message across eastern ...
... known to posterity by his later name, Kyrill) and Methodius, themselves possibly of Slavic descent, who drew up a new alphabet, adapted from Greek, translated the Christian liturgy into Slavic and spread Christ's message across eastern ...
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... 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 local ruler , Philip of Macedon ...
... 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 local ruler , Philip of Macedon ...
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... known to posterity by his later name , Kyrill ) and Methodius , themselves possibly of Slavic descent , who drew up a new alphabet , adapted from Greek , translated the Christian liturgy into Slavic and spread Christ's message across ...
... known to posterity by his later name , Kyrill ) and Methodius , themselves possibly of Slavic descent , who drew up a new alphabet , adapted from Greek , translated the Christian liturgy into Slavic and spread Christ's message across ...
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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