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 27
... inhabitants of Salonica themselves were known , according to at least one Byzantine chronicler , as " friends of the Sultan . " 12 In the second half of the fourteenth century , one Balkan town after another yielded to the fast - moving ...
... inhabitants of Salonica themselves were known , according to at least one Byzantine chronicler , as " friends of the Sultan . " 12 In the second half of the fourteenth century , one Balkan town after another yielded to the fast - moving ...
Page 33
... inhabitants and to restore it just as it had been before . " Anagnostes tells us that he would have even liberated all the captives had not one of his senior commanders prevented him . As it was , he personally ransomed mem- bers of ...
... inhabitants and to restore it just as it had been before . " Anagnostes tells us that he would have even liberated all the captives had not one of his senior commanders prevented him . As it was , he personally ransomed mem- bers of ...
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... inhabitants were threatening to burn down their own houses and retreat to the mountains if they came . Neither Orlyk nor the British merchants he was travelling with took the threats seriously . Desperate to put the infected city behind ...
... inhabitants were threatening to burn down their own houses and retreat to the mountains if they came . Neither Orlyk nor the British merchants he was travelling with took the threats seriously . Desperate to put the infected city behind ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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