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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Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk
sultans turned Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That
the empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its enemies , and the ...
Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk
sultans turned Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That
the empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its enemies , and the ...
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No one dreamed in 1914 that more than one million Greeks might eventually be
forced to leave Anatolia . On the contrary , the need to make sure that they were
properly treated was a major curb on any officially sanctioned Greek anti - Muslim
...
No one dreamed in 1914 that more than one million Greeks might eventually be
forced to leave Anatolia . On the contrary , the need to make sure that they were
properly treated was a major curb on any officially sanctioned Greek anti - Muslim
...
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That suited the new regime in Turkey too : not only would their control of the
much larger quantity of Christian property in Anatolia be thereby legitimated ; but
they would also need Muslim immigrants to resettle the land and help cushion
the ...
That suited the new regime in Turkey too : not only would their control of the
much larger quantity of Christian property in Anatolia be thereby legitimated ; but
they would also need Muslim immigrants to resettle the land and help cushion
the ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Rose of Sultan Murad | 15 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375727388, 9780375727382 |
| Length | 490 pages |
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