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 37
... minarets were torn down shortly afterwards . Neverthe- less , at the busy central junction of Egnatia and Venizelos ... minaret ( now gone ) and a spacious columned courtyard . " One other fifteenth - century mosque survives ...
... minarets were torn down shortly afterwards . Neverthe- less , at the busy central junction of Egnatia and Venizelos ... minaret ( now gone ) and a spacious columned courtyard . " One other fifteenth - century mosque survives ...
Page 180
... minarets , stretch in a vast amphitheatre from the upper gallery of the ancient walls down to a proscenium of deep blue sea . With a fringe of boats as the foreground , the mauve - tinted heights in the distance and a middle theme made ...
... minarets , stretch in a vast amphitheatre from the upper gallery of the ancient walls down to a proscenium of deep blue sea . With a fringe of boats as the foreground , the mauve - tinted heights in the distance and a middle theme made ...
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... minarets is thinning out ... The red fezzes are leaving , the yashmaks vanish . What else remains ? Noth- ing ... minarets of former Christian churches which had been turned into mosques , " declared the former prime minister ...
... minarets is thinning out ... The red fezzes are leaving , the yashmaks vanish . What else remains ? Noth- ing ... minarets of former Christian churches which had been turned into mosques , " declared the former prime minister ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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