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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A total of just over ten thousand people lived there — so the population had
barely recovered to the level it was at when the Ottoman army burst in - roughly
divided between Christians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly in the ...
A total of just over ten thousand people lived there — so the population had
barely recovered to the level it was at when the Ottoman army burst in - roughly
divided between Christians and Muslims , with the former still very slightly in the ...
Page 430
The dead watched the living enjoying themselves as well as lamenting their
passing . Above the graves the city's inhabitants worked , begged , grazed their
animals and indulged in a variety of activities which Ottoman legislators vainly
tried to ...
The dead watched the living enjoying themselves as well as lamenting their
passing . Above the graves the city's inhabitants worked , begged , grazed their
animals and indulged in a variety of activities which Ottoman legislators vainly
tried to ...
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... the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into
the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless
villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.
... the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into
the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless
villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.
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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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