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
... 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 the storage of valuable goods which ...
... 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 the storage of valuable goods which ...
Page 300
... buildings were being blown up in a futile attempt to stem the course of the fire . Streams of red wine flowed into the gutters from bursting barrels of French army claret ; at Floca's café , directly in the line of the inferno ...
... buildings were being blown up in a futile attempt to stem the course of the fire . Streams of red wine flowed into the gutters from bursting barrels of French army claret ; at Floca's café , directly in the line of the inferno ...
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... building styles ( functional for the workers and lower - middle classes , neo - Byzantine for the downtown municipal ... buildings , with traffic carried through the city on intersecting roads which ran parallel with the shoreline ...
... building styles ( functional for the workers and lower - middle classes , neo - Byzantine for the downtown municipal ... buildings , with traffic carried through the city on intersecting roads which ran parallel with the shoreline ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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