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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Page 136
By the end of 1842 , the British consul was optimistically noting “ a more correct
system of administration in all the branches of the Local Government , less
oppression , less plundering , and everyone being free , it may be said , to
dispose of ...
By the end of 1842 , the British consul was optimistically noting “ a more correct
system of administration in all the branches of the Local Government , less
oppression , less plundering , and everyone being free , it may be said , to
dispose of ...
Page 330
In the Upper Town , however , where most of the 4700 vacant private properties
were to be found , less was destroyed . Its villas were large and often possessed
spacious courtyards and grounds : refugee families built over the gardens and ...
In the Upper Town , however , where most of the 4700 vacant private properties
were to be found , less was destroyed . Its villas were large and often possessed
spacious courtyards and grounds : refugee families built over the gardens and ...
Page 439
... face them all , the stringently patrolled and narrow - minded conception of
history which they once nurtured and which gave them a kind of justification starts
to look less plausible and less necessary . Other futures may require other pasts .
... face them all , the stringently patrolled and narrow - minded conception of
history which they once nurtured and which gave them a kind of justification starts
to look less plausible and less necessary . Other futures may require other pasts .
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Rose of Sultan Murad | 15 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
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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