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 29
... Venetian grain convoys , food was scarce . Some defenders let them- selves down by ropes to join the Turks . Others passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the walls was as powerful as it had ...
... Venetian grain convoys , food was scarce . Some defenders let them- selves down by ropes to join the Turks . Others passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the walls was as powerful as it had ...
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... Venetians , prisoners of some Albanians , who are negotiating their sale , " writes the Venetian consul in 1739. “ I immediately sent a trustworthy man there to the kadi with a letter informing him that they are Venetians and that ...
... Venetians , prisoners of some Albanians , who are negotiating their sale , " writes the Venetian consul in 1739. “ I immediately sent a trustworthy man there to the kadi with a letter informing him that they are Venetians and that ...
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... Venetian ducats and sequins . Demand was so high that counterfeits entered the market pro- duced in bulk by enterprising villagers in the Ionian islands - under Venetian control — and the towns of western Macedonia . Both the Ottoman ...
... Venetian ducats and sequins . Demand was so high that counterfeits entered the market pro- duced in bulk by enterprising villagers in the Ionian islands - under Venetian control — and the towns of western Macedonia . Both the Ottoman ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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