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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... British protection ) despite never having been to the Ionian islands nor even knowing where they were . The system had become so corrupt that people changed nationality as it served their interests . James Roggotti was born in Macedonia ...
... British protection ) despite never having been to the Ionian islands nor even knowing where they were . The system had become so corrupt that people changed nationality as it served their interests . James Roggotti was born in Macedonia ...
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... British and French troops . Barely two months later , things got even worse : in the winter of 1915 the Serb army was pushed back over the snow - bound mountains of Montenegro to the Adriatic sea , Serbia was occupied by the Central ...
... British and French troops . Barely two months later , things got even worse : in the winter of 1915 the Serb army was pushed back over the snow - bound mountains of Montenegro to the Adriatic sea , Serbia was occupied by the Central ...
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... British Museum make a grant of pre- historic objects from their collections " as recognition of the interest and love which the British and French Army of the Orient displayed throughout the war for the history and culture of our ...
... British Museum make a grant of pre- historic objects from their collections " as recognition of the interest and love which the British and French Army of the Orient displayed throughout the war for the history and culture of our ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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