Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Salonica, 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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On the streets of the city , approaching women was no easier , unless they were
slaves out on an errand . Bisani and his companions were foolishly attracted by a
beautiful pair of eyes , until they were driven off by a little boy throwing stones at ...
On the streets of the city , approaching women was no easier , unless they were
slaves out on an errand . Bisani and his companions were foolishly attracted by a
beautiful pair of eyes , until they were driven off by a little boy throwing stones at ...
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Jean - Jose Frappa described the “ simple , almost familial ” atmosphere of a
larger wartime brothel , its prostitutes drawn from Corinth and Cyprus as well as
Greek , Jewish and Muslim women from the city itself , the clients Scottish ,
French ...
Jean - Jose Frappa described the “ simple , almost familial ” atmosphere of a
larger wartime brothel , its prostitutes drawn from Corinth and Cyprus as well as
Greek , Jewish and Muslim women from the city itself , the clients Scottish ,
French ...
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cially the seafront were filled with women of all kinds of suspect morals . ” By the
mid - 1950s , more than one hundred " dishonourable women ” were still in the
business . It was a far cry from the one thousand sex workers of the First World
War ...
cially the seafront were filled with women of all kinds of suspect morals . ” By the
mid - 1950s , more than one hundred " dishonourable women ” were still in the
business . It was a far cry from the one thousand sex workers of the First World
War ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Rose of Sultan Murad | 15 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 |
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375727388, 9780375727382 |
| Length | 490 pages |
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