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 225
... began to be seen as the responsibility of the state . 19 In 1869 Sabri Pasha came as governor from Izmir , where he had carried out an ambitious modernization of the port . His strategy for Salonica was very similar - to open it up by ...
... began to be seen as the responsibility of the state . 19 In 1869 Sabri Pasha came as governor from Izmir , where he had carried out an ambitious modernization of the port . His strategy for Salonica was very similar - to open it up by ...
Page 324
... began to allocate the rooms among themselves . His father protested to the governor - general himself who sent a dozen Greek soldiers to evict the squatters , but the remedy was only temporary and the family had to share the house after ...
... began to allocate the rooms among themselves . His father protested to the governor - general himself who sent a dozen Greek soldiers to evict the squatters , but the remedy was only temporary and the family had to share the house after ...
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... began to rot . Stalls and shopfronts , especially in the commercial districts , were shuttered and closed and factories lay idle . " Following the closure of very many Jew- ish shops , the diminished circulation in the streets and the ...
... began to rot . Stalls and shopfronts , especially in the commercial districts , were shuttered and closed and factories lay idle . " Following the closure of very many Jew- ish shops , the diminished circulation in the streets and the ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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