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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... Travellers and the European Imagination IO The Possibilities of a Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint Dimitrios 15 The ...
... Travellers and the European Imagination IO The Possibilities of a Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint Dimitrios 15 The ...
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... traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and ...
... traveller Evliya Chelebi noted , called the city " our Salonica " -a place where , in addition to Turkish , Greek and Bulgarian , most of the inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and ...
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... Travellers - drawn in ever - increasing numbers by the city's antiquities , by the partridge and rabbits in the plains outside , by busi- ness , art or sheer love of adventure - penned their impressions of a magical landscape of ...
... Travellers - drawn in ever - increasing numbers by the city's antiquities , by the partridge and rabbits in the plains outside , by busi- ness , art or sheer love of adventure - penned their impressions of a magical landscape of ...
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... travellers . Minarets - spiralling , pointed , multi - coloured or unadorned - dominated the skyline and became landmarks for visi- tors , lit up during holidays and imperial celebrations . In 1853 the Oxford geographer Henry Tozer saw ...
... travellers . Minarets - spiralling , pointed , multi - coloured or unadorned - dominated the skyline and became landmarks for visi- tors , lit up during holidays and imperial celebrations . In 1853 the Oxford geographer Henry Tozer saw ...
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... - standing examples of early Ottoman architecture in the Balkans . Until the 1960s , travellers could still wash themselves in what were latterly called the Paradise Baths . Today the constant flows of 39 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... - standing examples of early Ottoman architecture in the Balkans . Until the 1960s , travellers could still wash themselves in what were latterly called the Paradise Baths . Today the constant flows of 39 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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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