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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... wrote as though nothing else of any significance had happened in those years . In Greece , for example , two other areas of criminal activity - the mass shootings of civilians in anti - partisan retaliations , and the execution of ...
... wrote as though nothing else of any significance had happened in those years . In Greece , for example , two other areas of criminal activity - the mass shootings of civilians in anti - partisan retaliations , and the execution of ...
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... wrote an English ex - serviceman in 1941. " At any rate nearly all of us now spell it with a ' k . ' " His presumption stirred up a hornet's nest . " Why Saloneeka , when every man in the last war knew it as Salonika ? " responded a ...
... wrote an English ex - serviceman in 1941. " At any rate nearly all of us now spell it with a ' k . ' " His presumption stirred up a hornet's nest . " Why Saloneeka , when every man in the last war knew it as Salonika ? " responded a ...
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... wrote Captain Vance from Edgware , Middlesex . “ Every man in the last war did not know it as Salonika . " Mr. Wilks of Newbury tried to calm matters by helpfully pointing out that in 1937 " by Greek royal decree , Salonika reverted to ...
... wrote Captain Vance from Edgware , Middlesex . “ Every man in the last war did not know it as Salonika . " Mr. Wilks of Newbury tried to calm matters by helpfully pointing out that in 1937 " by Greek royal decree , Salonika reverted to ...
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... wrote . " Now that for me was something more difficult to stomach than ten thousand deaths . " But angry crowds demonstrated against him . When he invoked the miraculous powers of their patron Saint Dimitrios , and talked about a giant ...
... wrote . " Now that for me was something more difficult to stomach than ten thousand deaths . " But angry crowds demonstrated against him . When he invoked the miraculous powers of their patron Saint Dimitrios , and talked about a giant ...
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... wrote Anagnostes , " wore this ugliness like a mourning garment ... The hymns to God and the choirs have fallen silent . In their place one hears nothing but alalagmoi [ the sounds of Allah ] and the noise of the godless who make Satan ...
... wrote Anagnostes , " wore this ugliness like a mourning garment ... The hymns to God and the choirs have fallen silent . In their place one hears nothing but alalagmoi [ the sounds of Allah ] and the noise of the godless who make Satan ...
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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