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
... Byzantine converts to Islam , left the city strewn with corpses and thousands of its inhabitants were sold into slavery . But that remained an isolated event , for Macedonia was far from the centre of the long - running Byzantine - Arab ...
... Byzantine converts to Islam , left the city strewn with corpses and thousands of its inhabitants were sold into slavery . But that remained an isolated event , for Macedonia was far from the centre of the long - running Byzantine - Arab ...
Page 25
... Byzantine power was largely spent . Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk sul- tans turned Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That the empire survived at all was owing ...
... Byzantine power was largely spent . Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk sul- tans turned Anatolia into a battleground between competing emirates . That the empire survived at all was owing ...
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... Byzantine city par excellence , " and described it as the symbol of " the new great historical horizon " that the victories of the Greek army had made possible . " Athens represents , embodies better , antiquity in our history and in ...
... Byzantine city par excellence , " and described it as the symbol of " the new great historical horizon " that the victories of the Greek army had made possible . " Athens represents , embodies better , antiquity in our history and in ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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