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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... hundred years was henceforth established : a predominantly Slavic peasantry cultivated the soil and was kept under the political and economic control of non - Slav elites based in the city.8 But frontiers are places of interaction , and ...
... hundred years was henceforth established : a predominantly Slavic peasantry cultivated the soil and was kept under the political and economic control of non - Slav elites based in the city.8 But frontiers are places of interaction , and ...
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... hundred buildings were destroyed and over seventy thou- sand people had lost their homes . The Jewish community was worst affected for the fire had consumed its historic quarters : most of its thirty - seven synagogues were gone , its ...
... hundred buildings were destroyed and over seventy thou- sand people had lost their homes . The Jewish community was worst affected for the fire had consumed its historic quarters : most of its thirty - seven synagogues were gone , its ...
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... hundred , who had escaped into the mountains , or gone to fight with the partisans , now made their way back . Hundreds more had survived in hiding in or around Athens and many of these also gradually returned . But first - hand news of ...
... hundred , who had escaped into the mountains , or gone to fight with the partisans , now made their way back . Hundreds more had survived in hiding in or around Athens and many of these also gradually returned . But first - hand news of ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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