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 115
... Izmir , still less Naples or Genoa . Nevertheless , when one Ottoman official compiled a geogra- phy of Europe , he mentioned Salonica as one of the three key ports of the northern Mediterranean , along with Venice and Marseille . Henry ...
... Izmir , still less Naples or Genoa . Nevertheless , when one Ottoman official compiled a geogra- phy of Europe , he mentioned Salonica as one of the three key ports of the northern Mediterranean , along with Venice and Marseille . Henry ...
Page 319
... Izmir region , it seemed that his great gam- ble on the war had paid off . The great Cretan had brought his small country within sight of the " Greece of Five Seas ” —the modern resur- rection of the Byzantine empire - which Greek ...
... Izmir region , it seemed that his great gam- ble on the war had paid off . The great Cretan had brought his small country within sight of the " Greece of Five Seas ” —the modern resur- rection of the Byzantine empire - which Greek ...
Page 320
... Izmir and the coast . Retreat turned into a rout , as military discipline broke down and Turkish irreg- ulars harassed their flanks . First the French and then the British with- drew their backing from the Greeks and sought terms with ...
... Izmir and the coast . Retreat turned into a rout , as military discipline broke down and Turkish irreg- ulars harassed their flanks . First the French and then the British with- drew their backing from the Greeks and sought terms with ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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