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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Later of course, his son, Alexander, conquered much more distant lands which
took him to the limits of the known world. There were prehistoric settlements in
the area, but the city itself is a creation of the fourth-century B(I Macedonian state.
Later of course, his son, Alexander, conquered much more distant lands which
took him to the limits of the known world. There were prehistoric settlements in
the area, but the city itself is a creation of the fourth-century B(I Macedonian state.
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. does not cease to in-
ake victorious. And be slaughtered and took prisoner some of their sons, and
took their property.”3 Mur-ad's initial thought was “to return the city to its
inhabitants ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. does not cease to in-
ake victorious. And be slaughtered and took prisoner some of their sons, and
took their property.”3 Mur-ad's initial thought was “to return the city to its
inhabitants ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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