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 43
... lived there — so the population had barely recovered to the level it was at when the Ottoman army burst in - roughly divided between Chris- tians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly in the majority . The Muslims were ...
... lived there — so the population had barely recovered to the level it was at when the Ottoman army burst in - roughly divided between Chris- tians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly in the majority . The Muslims were ...
Page 62
... lived in a state run on the basis of the shari'a : Jews might be represented by Muslims professionally if they lived in certain neighbourhoods or belonged to certain guilds ; Jewish men ( like Christians ) converted to Islam for ...
... lived in a state run on the basis of the shari'a : Jews might be represented by Muslims professionally if they lived in certain neighbourhoods or belonged to certain guilds ; Jewish men ( like Christians ) converted to Islam for ...
Page 339
... lived . They settled themselves in abandoned houses , and built another 2500 dwellings in courtyards , empty plots ... lived within the walls in a space dominated by Jews and Muslims ; by 1932 more than half — and they were now mostly ...
... lived . They settled themselves in abandoned houses , and built another 2500 dwellings in courtyards , empty plots ... lived within the walls in a space dominated by Jews and Muslims ; by 1932 more than half — and they were now mostly ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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