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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 51
Page 117
... leave their heirs.8 Elsewhere in the city , however , it was a very different story , and new tastes , clothes and manners were leaving their mark upon the tiny but growing European and Europeanizing elite . The French were the first to ...
... leave their heirs.8 Elsewhere in the city , however , it was a very different story , and new tastes , clothes and manners were leaving their mark upon the tiny but growing European and Europeanizing elite . The French were the first to ...
Page 206
... leave them there . I'd have to break them to free the road but what a deplorable necessity ! Then they would be justified in calling us barbar- ians . Better it would have been to leave the monument and rest content with taking only the ...
... leave them there . I'd have to break them to free the road but what a deplorable necessity ! Then they would be justified in calling us barbar- ians . Better it would have been to leave the monument and rest content with taking only the ...
Page 323
... leave . 19 For Salonica , therefore , the 1923 population exchange completed what 1912 had begun the dispossession and disappearance of the group which had dominated its life over the preceding five centuries . Although the city was by ...
... leave . 19 For Salonica , therefore , the 1923 population exchange completed what 1912 had begun the dispossession and disappearance of the group which had dominated its life over the preceding five centuries . Although the city was by ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
21 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abdul Albanian Anatolia army arrived Asia Minor Athens Balkan became British building Bulgarian Byzantine cafés capital cemetery centre century chief rabbi Christian church city's consul converted crowd Dimitrios eastern Edirne Egnatia Europe European faith fire forced French German Greece Greek hand houses hundred imperial inhabitants Islam Istanbul Italian Izmir janissaries Jewish Jewish community Jews journalist land later lived London loniki Ma'min Macedonia Marranos Mehmed merchants Mertzios Mevlevi minarets modern mosque municipal Murad Muslim neighbourhood officers Orthodox Ottoman authorities Ottoman city Ottoman empire Paris Pasha peasants police political population Porte quarter refugees religion religious remained reported Russian Salonica Salonique streets sultan synagogue Thessa Thessaloniki thousand tion tis Thessalonikis took trade travellers troops Turkey Turkish turned Upper Town Vardar Venetian Venizelist Venizelos villages Vlachs walls women workers wrote YDIP Young Turks Yusuf Bey Zevi