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 35
... tion of urban life . The centre of gravity of Balkan Christianity shifted into the rural areas where monasteries , especially in Mount Athos , prospered . The cities were more deeply altered . With the newcomers came their faith , their ...
... tion of urban life . The centre of gravity of Balkan Christianity shifted into the rural areas where monasteries , especially in Mount Athos , prospered . The cities were more deeply altered . With the newcomers came their faith , their ...
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... tion . For some reason , he refused to wear white shirts ; " a coloured shirt with attached collar was , for him , the extreme limit of westernization in dress to which he felt that one could go without falling into conflict with ...
... tion . For some reason , he refused to wear white shirts ; " a coloured shirt with attached collar was , for him , the extreme limit of westernization in dress to which he felt that one could go without falling into conflict with ...
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... tion had placed a huge strain on local water supplies and in the 1880s the newspapers had criticized the authorities for their indifference to the city's needs . Successive mayors had invested in the traditional solu- tion of new public ...
... tion had placed a huge strain on local water supplies and in the 1880s the newspapers had criticized the authorities for their indifference to the city's needs . Successive mayors had invested in the traditional solu- tion of new public ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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