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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Sometimes it seemed from the way people talked and 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-p-.
Sometimes it seemed from the way people talked and 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-p-.
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wrote an English ex-servicem-an in I().|.I. “At any rate nearly all of us now spell it with a 'k.' ” His presumption stirred up a hornet's nes. ' 'a once'a, w en every man in e as war 'iew i as t “VVI1 5 l L h ' th 1 t In t Salonika?
wrote an English ex-servicem-an in I().|.I. “At any rate nearly all of us now spell it with a 'k.' ” His presumption stirred up a hornet's nes. ' 'a once'a, w en every man in e as war 'iew i as t “VVI1 5 l L h ' th 1 t In t Salonika?
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with \V. Pole," wrote Captain Vance from Ed gw-are, Middlesex. “Every man in the last war did not know it as Salonika." Mr. “Tlks of l\'ewbury tried to calm matters by helpfully pointing out that in 1937 “by Greek royal decree, ...
with \V. Pole," wrote Captain Vance from Ed gw-are, Middlesex. “Every man in the last war did not know it as Salonika." Mr. “Tlks of l\'ewbury tried to calm matters by helpfully pointing out that in 1937 “by Greek royal decree, ...
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... city to the infidel,” he wrote. “.\iow that for me was something more difficult to stomach than ten thousand deaths." But angry crowds demonstrated against him. \Vhen he invoked the miraculous powers of their patron Saint Dimitrios, ...
... city to the infidel,” he wrote. “.\iow that for me was something more difficult to stomach than ten thousand deaths." But angry crowds demonstrated against him. \Vhen he invoked the miraculous powers of their patron Saint Dimitrios, ...
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lacedonia," wrote the Italian merchant-antiquarian (Iyriac of Ancon-.1. They were “bound by iron chains and lashed by whips, and in the end put up for sale in villages and markets . . 33 The Rare of S//lmn fllur/Id.
lacedonia," wrote the Italian merchant-antiquarian (Iyriac of Ancon-.1. They were “bound by iron chains and lashed by whips, and in the end put up for sale in villages and markets . . 33 The Rare of S//lmn fllur/Id.
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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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| 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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