Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 - 490 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 23
... Anatolia - the men of Christ had several hundred more years to proselytize before confronting a serious rival in Islam . Infinitely more important in the long run than the booty - hunters were the nomadic tribes who found Salonica on ...
... Anatolia - the men of Christ had several hundred more years to proselytize before confronting a serious rival in Islam . Infinitely more important in the long run than the booty - hunters were the nomadic tribes who found Salonica on ...
Page 129
... Anatolia . In March 1822 , another pasha , Mehmed Emin Abulubud - a Syrian of an " energetic and some- times violent " character - ordered a new mobilization : the city forts were inspected , and brief risings in Halkidiki and on Thasos ...
... Anatolia . In March 1822 , another pasha , Mehmed Emin Abulubud - a Syrian of an " energetic and some- times violent " character - ordered a new mobilization : the city forts were inspected , and brief risings in Halkidiki and on Thasos ...
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... Anatolia and the Black Sea , and turned Greeks back into a majority of Salonica's population for the first time since the Byzantine era . In 1913 , Greeks had been a minority of the city's 157,000 inhabitants ; by 1928 they were 75 % of ...
... Anatolia and the Black Sea , and turned Greeks back into a majority of Salonica's population for the first time since the Byzantine era . In 1913 , Greeks had been a minority of the city's 157,000 inhabitants ; by 1928 they were 75 % of ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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