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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... REFORM was driven from the centre , and forced on the provinces . As an imperial emissary , almost always brought in from ... reforms they dominated that too , and more often than not they ensured that members of their families held the ...
... REFORM was driven from the centre , and forced on the provinces . As an imperial emissary , almost always brought in from ... reforms they dominated that too , and more often than not they ensured that members of their families held the ...
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... reform rose , the beys fought back to defend their place in the old order . Even before the first reform decrees were ... reforms . At first this was an obstructive strat- egy , a way to monopolize positions of influence and control the ...
... reform rose , the beys fought back to defend their place in the old order . Even before the first reform decrees were ... reforms . At first this was an obstructive strat- egy , a way to monopolize positions of influence and control the ...
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... Reform REFORM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE was an Islamic state and the Ottoman sultan was also Warrior of the Faith , Custodian ... reforms more keenly felt than in the transformation of the relationship between the empire's faiths.1 Reform meant ...
... Reform REFORM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE was an Islamic state and the Ottoman sultan was also Warrior of the Faith , Custodian ... reforms more keenly felt than in the transformation of the relationship between the empire's faiths.1 Reform meant ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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