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 18
... known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912.1 It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek etymology is perfectly straightforward . The daughter of a local ruler , Philip of Macedon ...
... known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912.1 It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek etymology is perfectly straightforward . The daughter of a local ruler , Philip of Macedon ...
Page 54
... known had always kept a low profile . In the early years , it is true , the Sefardim tried to tread cautiously . Congregants were reminded by their rabbis to keep their voices down when they prayed so that they would not be heard ...
... known had always kept a low profile . In the early years , it is true , the Sefardim tried to tread cautiously . Congregants were reminded by their rabbis to keep their voices down when they prayed so that they would not be heard ...
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... known after local places of worship and their nicknames . There was the " Red Mosque , " the " Mosque of the Clock- tower " and the " Burned Monastery " district , from the destruction caused by a Venetian bombardment two centuries ...
... known after local places of worship and their nicknames . There was the " Red Mosque , " the " Mosque of the Clock- tower " and the " Burned Monastery " district , from the destruction caused by a Venetian bombardment two centuries ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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