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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homes and made their way to Salonica , from where steamers carried them to lands still under Ottoman control . It was not only soldiers who were intimidating them . Gendarmes— many of them from Crete , which itself had only recently ...
homes and made their way to Salonica , from where steamers carried them to lands still under Ottoman control . It was not only soldiers who were intimidating them . Gendarmes— many of them from Crete , which itself had only recently ...
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Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375727388, 9780375727382 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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