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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... passed through , as did the Pole Jan Potocki , the multi - talented author of that remarkable novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa , who blew his brains out with a silver bullet a few years later . Following the suppression of the ...
... passed through , as did the Pole Jan Potocki , the multi - talented author of that remarkable novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa , who blew his brains out with a silver bullet a few years later . Following the suppression of the ...
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... passed on , all in full hearing of the many other supplicants seated and awaiting their turn : news of everything ... passing his leisure in the corner of his divan , " and as a result ordered prisoners to sweep the streets and organized ...
... passed on , all in full hearing of the many other supplicants seated and awaiting their turn : news of everything ... passing his leisure in the corner of his divan , " and as a result ordered prisoners to sweep the streets and organized ...
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... passed ordering all Turks who passed a gen- darme to dismount and say " Yassou Effendi " : a beating was the punish- ment for those who failed . Gendarmes threatened any Greeks who were still in the employ of Turkish beys , and ordered ...
... passed ordering all Turks who passed a gen- darme to dismount and say " Yassou Effendi " : a beating was the punish- ment for those who failed . Gendarmes threatened any Greeks who were still in the employ of Turkish beys , and ordered ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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