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 109
... carried off 1337 Christians , 2239 Turks and 3935 Jews . That was not the only really serious outbreak : in 1762 10-12,000 people , roughly 16-20 % of the population , died . The figures were similar in 1781 when as a survivor put it ...
... carried off 1337 Christians , 2239 Turks and 3935 Jews . That was not the only really serious outbreak : in 1762 10-12,000 people , roughly 16-20 % of the population , died . The figures were similar in 1781 when as a survivor put it ...
Page 182
... carried them bodily out of the boat before fighting over who would have the right to carry his belongings to the hotel . Melville , who visited the town briefly a few years later , watched in fascination the " vast crowd and tumult ...
... carried them bodily out of the boat before fighting over who would have the right to carry his belongings to the hotel . Melville , who visited the town briefly a few years later , watched in fascination the " vast crowd and tumult ...
Page 226
... carried noise deep into the night- " red frocks and shrill music , Turkish guitars , gypsy violins , Greek melodies and dirty French songs , " noted Berard on arriving in 1896. Caiques moored along the front next to the new marble ...
... carried noise deep into the night- " red frocks and shrill music , Turkish guitars , gypsy violins , Greek melodies and dirty French songs , " noted Berard on arriving in 1896. Caiques moored along the front next to the new marble ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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