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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... rule The planned city centre : Plateia Aristotelous and the seafront ( Repro- duced from A. Karadimou - Yerolympou , I anoikodomisi tis Thessalonikis meta tin pyrkaia tou 1917 , by permission of University Studio Press and the author ) ...
... rule The planned city centre : Plateia Aristotelous and the seafront ( Repro- duced from A. Karadimou - Yerolympou , I anoikodomisi tis Thessalonikis meta tin pyrkaia tou 1917 , by permission of University Studio Press and the author ) ...
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... rule . In the late sixth century , they reached the walls of Salonica for the first time , and a huge army gathered on the plains outside the walls . Only Saint Dimitrios saved the day : thanks to his inspiration , the defenders ...
... rule . In the late sixth century , they reached the walls of Salonica for the first time , and a huge army gathered on the plains outside the walls . Only Saint Dimitrios saved the day : thanks to his inspiration , the defenders ...
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... rule . Local ghazis like Evrenos Bey were not pleased , but apart from delaying the withdrawal of the Ottoman garrison they could do nothing . But in 1421 a new ruler , the youthful Murad II , fought his way to the throne , and ...
... rule . Local ghazis like Evrenos Bey were not pleased , but apart from delaying the withdrawal of the Ottoman garrison they could do nothing . But in 1421 a new ruler , the youthful Murad II , fought his way to the throne , and ...
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... rule . After 1422 his troops besieged it , and with the hinterland also under his con- trol , there was little the Byzantine emperors could do . The empire itself was dying . The city's inhabitants invited the Venetians in , think- ing ...
... rule . After 1422 his troops besieged it , and with the hinterland also under his con- trol , there was little the Byzantine emperors could do . The empire itself was dying . The city's inhabitants invited the Venetians in , think- ing ...
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... rule , more than half of the latter were now imams , muezzins , tax collectors , janissaries or other servants of the state and its ruling faith . They administered the city ; the Jews ran its economy . It was a division of labour which ...
... rule , more than half of the latter were now imams , muezzins , tax collectors , janissaries or other servants of the state and its ruling faith . They administered the city ; the Jews ran its economy . It was a division of labour which ...
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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