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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... centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda ( Courtesy of Mr. H. Yiakoumis and Editions Potamos ) The new city Huts of Asia ...
... centre following the 1917 fire ( Imperial War Museum ) First meeting of the town planners , 1917 Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda ( Courtesy of Mr. H. Yiakoumis and Editions Potamos ) The new city Huts of Asia ...
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... centres like Salonica who disposed . The destruction of the janissaries had removed one of the most unruly ... centre of the town , in a walled enclosure with gardens , outbuildings and offices , it was not a particularly grand ...
... centres like Salonica who disposed . The destruction of the janissaries had removed one of the most unruly ... centre of the town , in a walled enclosure with gardens , outbuildings and offices , it was not a particularly grand ...
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... Centre became the focus of socialist life . With a claimed twelve thousand workers under its command , the large cen- trally located two - storey villa had its own library and reading room , and acted as a kind of college for working ...
... Centre became the focus of socialist life . With a claimed twelve thousand workers under its command , the large cen- trally located two - storey villa had its own library and reading room , and acted as a kind of college for working ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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