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 108
... streets of the European quarter during Carnival , while parties at the house of the Greek metropolitan apparently went on for days at a time , with chicken , salted olives and lemon jam washed down with copious quanti- ties of vodka ...
... streets of the European quarter during Carnival , while parties at the house of the Greek metropolitan apparently went on for days at a time , with chicken , salted olives and lemon jam washed down with copious quanti- ties of vodka ...
Page 137
... streets and open spaces which detach it from its surroundings signal its authority . But at the time of Abdul Mecid's visit , the pasha's konak was surrounded by narrow twisting streets , inns , stables , a hamam and the Saatli ...
... streets and open spaces which detach it from its surroundings signal its authority . But at the time of Abdul Mecid's visit , the pasha's konak was surrounded by narrow twisting streets , inns , stables , a hamam and the Saatli ...
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... street fountains acted as magnets for local women , or mahalushas , to exchange gossip and rumours . " People live and work with their doors open , on the streets , ' noted a visitor . " It is in the streets that they cook , hammer and ...
... street fountains acted as magnets for local women , or mahalushas , to exchange gossip and rumours . " People live and work with their doors open , on the streets , ' noted a visitor . " It is in the streets that they cook , hammer and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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