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 6
... once grand, had been badly neglected: their gabled roofs had caved in, their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view, and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their frontage. By the time I first ...
... once grand, had been badly neglected: their gabled roofs had caved in, their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view, and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their frontage. By the time I first ...
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... once grand , had been badly neglected : their gabled roofs had caved in , their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view , and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their frontage . By the time I ...
... once grand , had been badly neglected : their gabled roofs had caved in , their shuttered bedrooms lay open to public view , and one caught spectacular glimpses of the city below through yawning gaps in their frontage . By the time I ...
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... once existed . The old houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam ...
... once existed . The old houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam ...
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... once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman and an Islamic city atop the Greek and Jewish ones . How striking then it is that memoirs often describe the place very differently from such scholarly or official accounts and depict a ...
... once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman and an Islamic city atop the Greek and Jewish ones . How striking then it is that memoirs often describe the place very differently from such scholarly or official accounts and depict a ...
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... once more . One thing , however , always survived as a reminder of its Greek origins , however badly it was battered and butchered by time and strangers , and that was its name . SALONICCO , SELANIK , Solun ? Salonicha or Salonique ...
... once more . One thing , however , always survived as a reminder of its Greek origins , however badly it was battered and butchered by time and strangers , and that was its name . SALONICCO , SELANIK , Solun ? Salonicha or Salonique ...
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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