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 fact it had been officially known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912 . It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek etymology is perfectly straightforward .
In fact it had been officially known by the Greek form since the Ottomans were defeated in 1912 . It is only foreigners who make things difficult for themselves , for the Greek etymology is perfectly straightforward .
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But the Iberian Jews had always known how to live well , and their noble families had been unabashedly conspicuous , with large retinues of servants and African slaves . Even before Murad III introduced new sumptuary legislation in the ...
But the Iberian Jews had always known how to live well , and their noble families had been unabashedly conspicuous , with large retinues of servants and African slaves . Even before Murad III introduced new sumptuary legislation in the ...
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Other neighbourhoods were known after local places of worship and their nicknames . There was the “ Red Mosque , ” the “ Mosque of the Clocktower ” and the “ Burned Monastery " district , from the destruction caused by a Venetian ...
Other neighbourhoods were known after local places of worship and their nicknames . There was the “ Red Mosque , ” the “ Mosque of the Clocktower ” and the “ Burned Monastery " district , from the destruction caused by a Venetian ...
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Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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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