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 98
... janissaries themselves . They guarded the city's gates and towers , patrolled the markets to ensure fair trading and were in theory at least one of the police forces of the Ottoman state . In practice , however , the fighting prowess ...
... janissaries themselves . They guarded the city's gates and towers , patrolled the markets to ensure fair trading and were in theory at least one of the police forces of the Ottoman state . In practice , however , the fighting prowess ...
Page 99
... janissaries to defend them . Why should they starve solely to swell the profits of the wealthy , or to allow precious wheat to be shipped to Istanbul ? In August 1753 there was a " popular revolt " as a janissary - led mob burned down ...
... janissaries to defend them . Why should they starve solely to swell the profits of the wealthy , or to allow precious wheat to be shipped to Istanbul ? In August 1753 there was a " popular revolt " as a janissary - led mob burned down ...
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... janissaries could play at court politics too and often engineered the recall of officials they disliked . By the end of the century , the problem had become so bad that even the older janissary officers were losing control over the ...
... janissaries could play at court politics too and often engineered the recall of officials they disliked . By the end of the century , the problem had become so bad that even the older janissary officers were losing control over the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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