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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Yane Sandanski Hilmi Pacha Ioacheim III Albanian Ottoman irregulars Regular
Ottoman infantry arrive in Macedonia Cretan gendarmes ( Imperial War Museum
) Venizelos arrives by sea to lead Greece into the First World War , 9 October ...
Yane Sandanski Hilmi Pacha Ioacheim III Albanian Ottoman irregulars Regular
Ottoman infantry arrive in Macedonia Cretan gendarmes ( Imperial War Museum
) Venizelos arrives by sea to lead Greece into the First World War , 9 October ...
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14 SERVING THE IMPERIAL ECONOMY EARLY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
, the Porte entrusted the Jews of Salonica with the responsibility of manufacturing
the uniforms for the janissary infantry corps , and over the next century this ...
14 SERVING THE IMPERIAL ECONOMY EARLY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
, the Porte entrusted the Jews of Salonica with the responsibility of manufacturing
the uniforms for the janissary infantry corps , and over the next century this ...
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Hotel Colombo , 224 , 250 Hotel d'Angleterre , 184 , 226 , 251 , 259 Hotel
Imperial , 184 , 185 Hotel Méditerranée , 361 , 363 hotels , 184 housing , 45 , 222
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Hotel Colombo , 224 , 250 Hotel d'Angleterre , 184 , 226 , 251 , 259 Hotel
Imperial , 184 , 185 Hotel Méditerranée , 361 , 363 hotels , 184 housing , 45 , 222
-3 , 234-5 , 339 , 392 Howard , John , 112 Hungarians , 38 , 239 Hungary , 24 , 52
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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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