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 17
... least thirteen medieval variants alone ; the city is an indexer's nightmare and a linguist's delight . " Is there really a correct pronunciation of Salonika ? " wrote an English ex - serviceman in 1941. " At any rate nearly all of us ...
... least thirteen medieval variants alone ; the city is an indexer's nightmare and a linguist's delight . " Is there really a correct pronunciation of Salonika ? " wrote an English ex - serviceman in 1941. " At any rate nearly all of us ...
Page 27
... least one Byzantine chronicler , as " friends of the Sultan . " 12 In the second half of the fourteenth century , one Balkan town after another yielded to the fast - moving Ottoman armies ; the Via Egnatia fell into their hands , and ...
... least one Byzantine chronicler , as " friends of the Sultan . " 12 In the second half of the fourteenth century , one Balkan town after another yielded to the fast - moving Ottoman armies ; the Via Egnatia fell into their hands , and ...
Page 29
... least would bolster the defences , but the situation went from bad to worse . By 1429 urban life had virtually collapsed , three - quarters of the inhabitants had already fled - many into Ottoman - controlled territories and only ten ...
... least would bolster the defences , but the situation went from bad to worse . By 1429 urban life had virtually collapsed , three - quarters of the inhabitants had already fled - many into Ottoman - controlled territories and only ten ...
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... least were emphatically Muslim - 90 % of Larissa's population by 1530 , for instance , 61 % in Serres , 75 % in Monastir and Skopje , 66 % in Sofia . In Salonica , on the other hand , Muslims never dominated the city numerically , and ...
... least were emphatically Muslim - 90 % of Larissa's population by 1530 , for instance , 61 % in Serres , 75 % in Monastir and Skopje , 66 % in Sofia . In Salonica , on the other hand , Muslims never dominated the city numerically , and ...
Page 42
... least were often judged not according to the divine law but " on the basis of cus- tom " or royal decree . For the empire had a triple system of law with the shari'a providing a foundation , alongside the body of customary law- adet ...
... least were often judged not according to the divine law but " on the basis of cus- tom " or royal decree . For the empire had a triple system of law with the shari'a providing a foundation , alongside the body of customary law- adet ...
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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