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 39
... build market complexes and other buildings of public utility . Bayazid II , who wintered in Salonica during his Balkan campaigns at the end of the fifteenth century , erected a new six - domed stone bezesten ( market building ) , for ...
... build market complexes and other buildings of public utility . Bayazid II , who wintered in Salonica during his Balkan campaigns at the end of the fifteenth century , erected a new six - domed stone bezesten ( market building ) , for ...
Page 207
... building works and stored finds in the courtyard of the governor's mansion , before sending the best pieces on to ... build a museum in Salonica itself , these were still on paper only when the Greek army took the city in 1912.2 24 THE ...
... building works and stored finds in the courtyard of the governor's mansion , before sending the best pieces on to ... build a museum in Salonica itself , these were still on paper only when the Greek army took the city in 1912.2 24 THE ...
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... building styles ( functional for the workers and lower - middle classes , neo - Byzantine for the downtown municipal buildings ) , height and colours ( " unaesthetic " shades were to be prohibited ) . A wide avenue was to be cut running ...
... building styles ( functional for the workers and lower - middle classes , neo - Byzantine for the downtown municipal buildings ) , height and colours ( " unaesthetic " shades were to be prohibited ) . A wide avenue was to be cut running ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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