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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... wrote a journalist in 1881. Others felt drawn either by the risks , or by the sense of being at the centre of events . " The traveller in pursuit of the picturesque or in flight from the commonplace will find here what he seeks , " wrote ...
... wrote a journalist in 1881. Others felt drawn either by the risks , or by the sense of being at the centre of events . " The traveller in pursuit of the picturesque or in flight from the commonplace will find here what he seeks , " wrote ...
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... wrote : " The Oriental woman ! Well then , so [ Loti ] showed us one of these beautiful odalisques . Have you seen one yourself ? In more than a year that we are at Salonica , behind the Villa of the Red Sultan , have you seen the ...
... wrote : " The Oriental woman ! Well then , so [ Loti ] showed us one of these beautiful odalisques . Have you seen one yourself ? In more than a year that we are at Salonica , behind the Villa of the Red Sultan , have you seen the ...
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... wrote the scholarly Tozer in 1869 , " are of the greatest value for the history of art . " This was a novel view at the time , but others soon came to appreciate their importance . " The sole merit of the town , " wrote de Vogüé in 1875 ...
... wrote the scholarly Tozer in 1869 , " are of the greatest value for the history of art . " This was a novel view at the time , but others soon came to appreciate their importance . " The sole merit of the town , " wrote de Vogüé in 1875 ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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