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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... less in thrall to an ancient past , more intimately linked to neighbouring peoples , languages and cultures . The crowded alleys of the market offered shade as I pushed past carts piled high with figs , nuts , bootleg Fifth Avenue ...
... less in thrall to an ancient past , more intimately linked to neighbouring peoples , languages and cultures . The crowded alleys of the market offered shade as I pushed past carts piled high with figs , nuts , bootleg Fifth Avenue ...
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... less absent from both . Centuries of European antipathy to the Ottomans had left their mark . Their presence on the wrong side of the Dardanelles had for so long been seen as an accident , misfortune or tragedy that in an act of belated ...
... less absent from both . Centuries of European antipathy to the Ottomans had left their mark . Their presence on the wrong side of the Dardanelles had for so long been seen as an accident , misfortune or tragedy that in an act of belated ...
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... Less arid than Athens , less hemmed in than Trieste , the new city blended with its surroundings , marking the point where mountains , rivers and sea met . It guarded the most accessible land route from the Mediterranean up into the ...
... Less arid than Athens , less hemmed in than Trieste , the new city blended with its surroundings , marking the point where mountains , rivers and sea met . It guarded the most accessible land route from the Mediterranean up into the ...
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... less harsh , shading the western mountains in grey , brown and violet . After days of cloudy and stormy weather , the Reverend Henry Fanshawe Tozer realized " what I had never felt before - the pleasure of pale colours . " Artesian ...
... less harsh , shading the western mountains in grey , brown and violet . After days of cloudy and stormy weather , the Reverend Henry Fanshawe Tozer realized " what I had never felt before - the pleasure of pale colours . " Artesian ...
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... less than twenty years later the Byzantine emperor Jean V Palaeologue made his submission to his successor Murad I. By the end of the century , Murad's successor Bayazid I — the Thunderbolt was styling himself Sultan . Thanks to the ...
... less than twenty years later the Byzantine emperor Jean V Palaeologue made his submission to his successor Murad I. By the end of the century , Murad's successor Bayazid I — the Thunderbolt was styling himself Sultan . Thanks to the ...
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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