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 112
... officials to the man- agement of the city . Although soldiers returning from wars , pilgrims and merchants all carried the deadly disease into the unprotected port , preventative measures were more or less non - existent . Infected ...
... officials to the man- agement of the city . Although soldiers returning from wars , pilgrims and merchants all carried the deadly disease into the unprotected port , preventative measures were more or less non - existent . Infected ...
Page 141
... officials ; in reality , their pay was so low that into the 1860s little changed . " I have no inducement to be honest , " one pasha confessed . " If I attempt to rule justly all the other pashas will combine against me and I shall soon ...
... officials ; in reality , their pay was so low that into the 1860s little changed . " I have no inducement to be honest , " one pasha confessed . " If I attempt to rule justly all the other pashas will combine against me and I shall soon ...
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... officials demand- ing the bribes needed money to pay off their debts to such men . It was because money - lending and corruption were closely con- nected that this class of men formed one of the principal targets of the reforms . In ...
... officials demand- ing the bribes needed money to pay off their debts to such men . It was because money - lending and corruption were closely con- nected that this class of men formed one of the principal targets of the reforms . In ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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