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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... Bulgarian — or , if not Bulgarian , then a Slavic tongue close to it . This started to matter to the peasants themselves once they identified Greek with the language not merely of holy scripture but of excessive taxation and corruption ...
... Bulgarian — or , if not Bulgarian , then a Slavic tongue close to it . This started to matter to the peasants themselves once they identified Greek with the language not merely of holy scripture but of excessive taxation and corruption ...
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... Bulgarian soldiers , while the komi- tadji bands themselves stirred things up further . In March 1913 , the two ... Bulgarian residents of the city were arrested by the Greek authorities ; others left on Bulgarian steamers . The ...
... Bulgarian soldiers , while the komi- tadji bands themselves stirred things up further . In March 1913 , the two ... Bulgarian residents of the city were arrested by the Greek authorities ; others left on Bulgarian steamers . The ...
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... Bulgarian gymnasium , 279 Bulgarian Macedo - Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Committee , 248-9 see also Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian Narrows , 269 , 426 Bulgarians , 8 , 25 , 239 , 243-4 , 254 , 278 , 284 , 287 ...
... Bulgarian gymnasium , 279 Bulgarian Macedo - Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Committee , 248-9 see also Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian Narrows , 269 , 426 Bulgarians , 8 , 25 , 239 , 243-4 , 254 , 278 , 284 , 287 ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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