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 12
... ninety - five per cent of the inhabitants were , by any definition , Greek . The old empires collapsed and nations fought their way into being , identities changed and people were labelled in new ways : I 2 Introduction.
... ninety - five per cent of the inhabitants were , by any definition , Greek . The old empires collapsed and nations fought their way into being , identities changed and people were labelled in new ways : I 2 Introduction.
Page 175
... changed , and a new image of it arose in books and articles which was eventually to exert a profound influence upon its own evolution . The catalyst was steam . The first steam cruise in the Levant took place in 1833 ; a steam boat ...
... changed , and a new image of it arose in books and articles which was eventually to exert a profound influence upon its own evolution . The catalyst was steam . The first steam cruise in the Levant took place in 1833 ; a steam boat ...
Page 228
... changed name several times as they wound their way past mosques and shrines . What today appears on maps as Muses Street , in the Upper Town , at this time lay mostly in the quarter of Two Balconies ( Iki Serife , named after the ...
... changed name several times as they wound their way past mosques and shrines . What today appears on maps as Muses Street , in the Upper Town , at this time lay mostly in the quarter of Two Balconies ( Iki Serife , named after the ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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