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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... thousand Muslim refugees departed , and nearly one hundred thousand Orthodox Christians took their place— suddenly turn one city into a new one ? Was the sense of urban continu- ity , in other words , which had so powerfully attracted ...
... thousand Muslim refugees departed , and nearly one hundred thousand Orthodox Christians took their place— suddenly turn one city into a new one ? Was the sense of urban continu- ity , in other words , which had so powerfully attracted ...
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... thousand refugees , many suffering from typhus or smallpox , receiving relief in the city , and another ten thousand in the vicinity . The Mufti of Skopje estimated that a total of seventy thousand were still in need of subsis- tence in ...
... thousand refugees , many suffering from typhus or smallpox , receiving relief in the city , and another ten thousand in the vicinity . The Mufti of Skopje estimated that a total of seventy thousand were still in need of subsis- tence in ...
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... thousand Bosnian Muslims were ready to emigrate " at the first signal , " and sug- gested that within a short space of time more than one million Muslim settlers might be brought into Macedonia - not only from Bosnia , but also from ...
... thousand Bosnian Muslims were ready to emigrate " at the first signal , " and sug- gested that within a short space of time more than one million Muslim settlers might be brought into Macedonia - not only from Bosnia , but also from ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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