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 176
... travellers , who are always in a hurry . " The regret- table shortening of journey times was not be avoided “ in our hurried century , " warned one early guidebook . " Three days saved in the time for navigation , the railways and roads ...
... travellers , who are always in a hurry . " The regret- table shortening of journey times was not be avoided “ in our hurried century , " warned one early guidebook . " Three days saved in the time for navigation , the railways and roads ...
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. three decades later , travellers were still oddities . On a ... traveller in pursuit of the picturesque or in flight from the commonplace will find here what he seeks , " wrote ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. three decades later , travellers were still oddities . On a ... traveller in pursuit of the picturesque or in flight from the commonplace will find here what he seeks , " wrote ...
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... travellers com- mented , as their predecessors never had , on differences in hygiene , noise and smell , and sought to create small islands of civilization for themselves to escape these . Staying in Turkish caravanserais and khans — as ...
... travellers com- mented , as their predecessors never had , on differences in hygiene , noise and smell , and sought to create small islands of civilization for themselves to escape these . Staying in Turkish caravanserais and khans — as ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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