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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During a fire in 1840 , Omer Pasha " was immediately on the spot " to check the
flames by ordering all the shops near the fire to be pulled down . By contrast ,
Yusuf Pasha was “ not respected owing to his indolence " and the former vizier
Riza ...
During a fire in 1840 , Omer Pasha " was immediately on the spot " to check the
flames by ordering all the shops near the fire to be pulled down . By contrast ,
Yusuf Pasha was “ not respected owing to his indolence " and the former vizier
Riza ...
Page 300
By nightfall the blaze had spread into the lower town and buildings were being
blown up in a futile attempt to stem the course of the fire . Streams of red wine
flowed into the gutters from bursting barrels of French army claret ; at Floca's café
...
By nightfall the blaze had spread into the lower town and buildings were being
blown up in a futile attempt to stem the course of the fire . Streams of red wine
flowed into the gutters from bursting barrels of French army claret ; at Floca's café
...
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daily . By September , there were only seventy - five hundred still in tents . Yet
rebuilding would take very much longer . Two months after the fire , wrote a
British soldier , “ Salonica was a city of the dead . Its streets were deserted , its
cafés and ...
daily . By September , there were only seventy - five hundred still in tents . Yet
rebuilding would take very much longer . Two months after the fire , wrote a
British soldier , “ Salonica was a city of the dead . Its streets were deserted , its
cafés and ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Rose of Sultan Murad | 15 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
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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