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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... Anatolia , the Via Egnatia , it straddled . Poised between Europe and Asia , the Mediterranean and the Balkans , the interface of two climatic zones brings Salonica highly changeable air pressure throughout the year . Driving winter ...
... Anatolia , the Via Egnatia , it straddled . Poised between Europe and Asia , the Mediterranean and the Balkans , the interface of two climatic zones brings Salonica highly changeable air pressure throughout the year . Driving winter ...
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... Anatolia and continued with the Ottoman advance into Europe . In the early twentieth century , the brilliant young British scholar Hasluck charted the dozens of Bektashi foundations which still existed at the time of the Balkan Wars as ...
... Anatolia and continued with the Ottoman advance into Europe . In the early twentieth century , the brilliant young British scholar Hasluck charted the dozens of Bektashi foundations which still existed at the time of the Balkan Wars as ...
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... Anatolia . On the contrary , the need to make sure that they were properly treated was a major curb on any officially sanc- tioned Greek anti - Muslim policy . The Ottoman government did not bother to hide the link , and there was a ...
... Anatolia . On the contrary , the need to make sure that they were properly treated was a major curb on any officially sanc- tioned Greek anti - Muslim policy . The Ottoman government did not bother to hide the link , and there was a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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