Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Salonica, 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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Like the other major early Christian shrines — the massive , lowsunk Panayia Acheiropoietos ( the Virgin's Church Unmade by Mortal Hands ) , the grand Ayia Sofia and the Rotonda itself - Dimitrios's church shows how deeply the city's ...
Like the other major early Christian shrines — the massive , lowsunk Panayia Acheiropoietos ( the Virgin's Church Unmade by Mortal Hands ) , the grand Ayia Sofia and the Rotonda itself - Dimitrios's church shows how deeply the city's ...
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According to him , many of the town's Muslim scholars studied the Gospels in Arabic and valued the Greek Church above the rest because “ the Greeks don't depart from evangelical teachings and from church traditions and ... they don't ...
According to him , many of the town's Muslim scholars studied the Gospels in Arabic and valued the Greek Church above the rest because “ the Greeks don't depart from evangelical teachings and from church traditions and ... they don't ...
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Although many of these martyrs had converted to Islam before seeing the error of their ways , what had induced their initial apostasy did not matter to the church - it might have been nothing more noble than the desire to pay lower ...
Although many of these martyrs had converted to Islam before seeing the error of their ways , what had induced their initial apostasy did not matter to the church - it might have been nothing more noble than the desire to pay lower ...
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Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375727388, 9780375727382 |
| Length | 490 pages |
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