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 108
... entire population in 1739-41 , and as many as a quarter may have died between 1758 and 1762 : the historian Daniel Panzac estimates it lost the equivalent of its entire population to the plague in the course of the century . At such ...
... entire population in 1739-41 , and as many as a quarter may have died between 1758 and 1762 : the historian Daniel Panzac estimates it lost the equivalent of its entire population to the plague in the course of the century . At such ...
Page 217
... entire peoples that were to transform the city beyond all recognition over the following seventy years . All this had taken place thanks to the Ottoman economy's opening to European capital and expertise , and the speculative frenzy ...
... entire peoples that were to transform the city beyond all recognition over the following seventy years . All this had taken place thanks to the Ottoman economy's opening to European capital and expertise , and the speculative frenzy ...
Page 228
... entire quarter beneath him when he made the call to prayer . Nightwatchmen were supported by each neighbourhood , and kept an eye out for strangers - for if they misbehaved or got into trouble , all the residents round about could end ...
... entire quarter beneath him when he made the call to prayer . Nightwatchmen were supported by each neighbourhood , and kept an eye out for strangers - for if they misbehaved or got into trouble , all the residents round about could end ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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