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 135
... sultan and his sub- jects . His pledge that " the Muslim and non - Muslim subjects of our lofty Sultanate shall enjoy our imperial concern " marked , at least in embryo , a policy of formal equality of all Ottoman subjects , regardless ...
... sultan and his sub- jects . His pledge that " the Muslim and non - Muslim subjects of our lofty Sultanate shall enjoy our imperial concern " marked , at least in embryo , a policy of formal equality of all Ottoman subjects , regardless ...
Page 148
... sultan to his country estate . He could not have been accused of stinting for the occasion . He had the road widened ... sultan's use . Abdul Mecid was delayed by the many petitions presented to him , but eventually his carriage drew up ...
... sultan to his country estate . He could not have been accused of stinting for the occasion . He had the road widened ... sultan's use . Abdul Mecid was delayed by the many petitions presented to him , but eventually his carriage drew up ...
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... Sultan Mehmed V Reshad , visited the city in 1911 , no direct contact was allowed between the two men , although the new sultan did send his private sec- retary to enquire after his brother's health . Abdul Hamid requested that one of ...
... Sultan Mehmed V Reshad , visited the city in 1911 , no direct contact was allowed between the two men , although the new sultan did send his private sec- retary to enquire after his brother's health . Abdul Hamid requested that one of ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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