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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In the circumstances , it is not surprising why surrender seemed far more sensible
an option than futile resistance against overwhelming odds , and why the
inhabitants of Salonica themselves were known , according to at least one
Byzantine ...
In the circumstances , it is not surprising why surrender seemed far more sensible
an option than futile resistance against overwhelming odds , and why the
inhabitants of Salonica themselves were known , according to at least one
Byzantine ...
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Murad's initial thought was “ to return the city to its 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 ...
Murad's initial thought was “ to return the city to its 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 ...
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By 1520 , more than half its thirty thousand inhabitants were Jewish , and it had
turned into one of the most important ports of the eastern Mediterranean.8
Perhaps only now did the real break with Byzantium take place . In 1478
Salonica was ...
By 1520 , more than half its thirty thousand inhabitants were Jewish , and it had
turned into one of the most important ports of the eastern Mediterranean.8
Perhaps only now did the real break with Byzantium take place . In 1478
Salonica was ...
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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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