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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... Europe . Once Catherine the Great conquered the Tatar lands and founded Odessa , the Black Sea grain trade took off as well , passing through Salonica on its way to southern Europe.2 By the century's end , the old , small wooden landing ...
... Europe . Once Catherine the Great conquered the Tatar lands and founded Odessa , the Black Sea grain trade took off as well , passing through Salonica on its way to southern Europe.2 By the century's end , the old , small wooden landing ...
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... Europe , " a curious phrase that implied its entry into a broader civilization . Europe stood for a set of values and the Ottoman empire was being asked to sign up to these much as the European Union has recently required its successor ...
... Europe , " a curious phrase that implied its entry into a broader civilization . Europe stood for a set of values and the Ottoman empire was being asked to sign up to these much as the European Union has recently required its successor ...
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... Europe , ” wrote Urquhart . “ So the Turk in contact with Euro- peans and the Europeans among the Turks . The two systems , when in juxtaposition , and not under the control of a mind that grasps both , are mutually destructive ... Ill ...
... Europe , ” wrote Urquhart . “ So the Turk in contact with Euro- peans and the Europeans among the Turks . The two systems , when in juxtaposition , and not under the control of a mind that grasps both , are mutually destructive ... Ill ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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