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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 54
Page 278
... troops were astonished to see armed Turks still patrolling the streets . They also allowed many of the mosques which had been converted from Byzantine churches to remain in Muslim hands , at least for the initial weeks . " What good to ...
... troops were astonished to see armed Turks still patrolling the streets . They also allowed many of the mosques which had been converted from Byzantine churches to remain in Muslim hands , at least for the initial weeks . " What good to ...
Page 289
... troops did not leave Salonica , he would order the Greek army to allow the Bulgarians in . Here he over - reached himself , for this turned his constitutional dispute with Venizelos into a question of Greece's territorial integrity and ...
... troops did not leave Salonica , he would order the Greek army to allow the Bulgarians in . Here he over - reached himself , for this turned his constitutional dispute with Venizelos into a question of Greece's territorial integrity and ...
Page 296
... troops and to the civilian population . The water - level was lowered , thanks to the construction of new drainage canals stretching for miles , and ponds were drained , filled in or sprayed with paraffin . In the spring of 1917 troops ...
... troops and to the civilian population . The water - level was lowered , thanks to the construction of new drainage canals stretching for miles , and ponds were drained , filled in or sprayed with paraffin . In the spring of 1917 troops ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
21 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abdul Albanian Anatolia army arrived Asia Minor Athens Balkan became British building Bulgarian Byzantine cafés capital cemetery centre century chief rabbi Christian church city's consul converted crowd Dimitrios eastern Edirne Egnatia Europe European faith fire forced French German Greece Greek hand houses hundred imperial inhabitants Islam Istanbul Italian Izmir janissaries Jewish Jewish community Jews journalist land later lived London loniki Ma'min Macedonia Marranos Mehmed merchants Mertzios Mevlevi minarets modern mosque municipal Murad Muslim neighbourhood officers Orthodox Ottoman authorities Ottoman city Ottoman empire Paris Pasha peasants police political population Porte quarter refugees religion religious remained reported Russian Salonica Salonique streets sultan synagogue Thessa Thessaloniki thousand tion tis Thessalonikis took trade travellers troops Turkey Turkish turned Upper Town Vardar Venetian Venizelist Venizelos villages Vlachs walls women workers wrote YDIP Young Turks Yusuf Bey Zevi