Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Salonica, 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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These files showed how the deport-ations had affected Salonica itself by triggering off a scramble for property and possessions that incriminated many wartime officials. I started to think about deportations in general, ...
These files showed how the deport-ations had affected Salonica itself by triggering off a scramble for property and possessions that incriminated many wartime officials. I started to think about deportations in general, ...
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An official tome from 1962 which had been published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its capture from the Turks contained almost no mention of them at all; the subject had been 1'eg'artletl as taboo by the politicians ...
An official tome from 1962 which had been published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its capture from the Turks contained almost no mention of them at all; the subject had been 1'eg'artletl as taboo by the politicians ...
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He handed over many properties to senior officials at his court, and craftsmen. attracted by tax breaks, were resettled from the nearby town of Yannits-.1 and from Anatolia. Their arrival injected new blood into the urban economy.
He handed over many properties to senior officials at his court, and craftsmen. attracted by tax breaks, were resettled from the nearby town of Yannits-.1 and from Anatolia. Their arrival injected new blood into the urban economy.
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City-based tax farmers controlled the local salteries and city officials were instructed to look after the mines in the Chalkidiki peninsula. .\~'loreover large areas within the walls were given over to vineyards, orchards and pasture, ...
City-based tax farmers controlled the local salteries and city officials were instructed to look after the mines in the Chalkidiki peninsula. .\~'loreover large areas within the walls were given over to vineyards, orchards and pasture, ...
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Contents
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Iuslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
brkers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and jews | 375 |
Genocide | 392 |
ftermath | 429 |
Notes llI | 441 |
286 | 443 |
vii | 449 |
Glossary | 469 |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0307427579, 9780307427571 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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