Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 M05 9 - 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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Page 134
... Abdul Mecid was not a man overly concerned with convention : he had shocked people a few years earlier by attending the wedding of the daughter of one of the leading Christians at his court , and had even graced with his presence a ball ...
... Abdul Mecid was not a man overly concerned with convention : he had shocked people a few years earlier by attending the wedding of the daughter of one of the leading Christians at his court , and had even graced with his presence a ball ...
Page 135
... Abdul Mecid declared his intention to safeguard the security of life , honour and property of his subjects , to do away with tax - farms and state monopolies , to bring in a regular system of tax assessment and collection , and to ...
... Abdul Mecid declared his intention to safeguard the security of life , honour and property of his subjects , to do away with tax - farms and state monopolies , to bring in a regular system of tax assessment and collection , and to ...
Page 148
... Abdul Mecid's visit , Abbott took the liberty of inviting the sultan to his country estate . He could not have been accused of stinting for the occasion . He had the road widened and new bridges built . Car- pets were bought up from ...
... Abdul Mecid's visit , Abbott took the liberty of inviting the sultan to his country estate . He could not have been accused of stinting for the occasion . He had the road widened and new bridges built . Car- pets were bought up from ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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