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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... capital . Fearing that the sultan was scheming to suspend the constitution again , the " Salonica Army " advanced on the imperial capital . General Mahmoud Shefket Pasha— Hilmi Pasha's successor as inspector - general of Macedonia ...
... capital . Fearing that the sultan was scheming to suspend the constitution again , the " Salonica Army " advanced on the imperial capital . General Mahmoud Shefket Pasha— Hilmi Pasha's successor as inspector - general of Macedonia ...
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... capital a year later . This was partly because the Jews of the Macedonian capital were far more numerous , more obtrusive and less assimilated than in Athens ; helping a few thousand mostly Greek - speaking Jews in a city of nearly half ...
... capital a year later . This was partly because the Jews of the Macedonian capital were far more numerous , more obtrusive and less assimilated than in Athens ; helping a few thousand mostly Greek - speaking Jews in a city of nearly half ...
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... Capital of Europe and European funds were pouring in for the restoration of its antiquities . The ministry of culture planned to use the Rotonda for concerts and exhibitions , and so at the end of 1994 it per- mitted the church to ...
... Capital of Europe and European funds were pouring in for the restoration of its antiquities . The ministry of culture planned to use the Rotonda for concerts and exhibitions , and so at the end of 1994 it per- mitted the church to ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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