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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... land . The fiefdoms his family won in the vicinity of Salonica made them among the largest land - owners in the empire and a dominant force in the city well into the twentieth century . His descendants included Ottoman pashas and Young ...
... land . The fiefdoms his family won in the vicinity of Salonica made them among the largest land - owners in the empire and a dominant force in the city well into the twentieth century . His descendants included Ottoman pashas and Young ...
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... land- owner outside Izmir . For even Rahmi Bey could see that his family's long connection with the Salonica region was inevitably coming to an end . Later , between the two world wars , he was pushed to the margins of Turkish political ...
... land- owner outside Izmir . For even Rahmi Bey could see that his family's long connection with the Salonica region was inevitably coming to an end . Later , between the two world wars , he was pushed to the margins of Turkish political ...
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... land which did not belong to them . Some of these illegal settlements were being dismantled as late as the 1950s , but many others were legalized retrospectively and the new claimants allowed to stay . If the land's original owners were ...
... land which did not belong to them . Some of these illegal settlements were being dismantled as late as the 1950s , but many others were legalized retrospectively and the new claimants allowed to stay . If the land's original owners were ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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