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 115
... Europe . Once Catherine the Great conquered the Tatar lands and founded Odessa , the Black Sea grain trade took off as well , passing through Salonica on its way to southern Europe.2 By the century's end , the old , small wooden landing ...
... Europe . Once Catherine the Great conquered the Tatar lands and founded Odessa , the Black Sea grain trade took off as well , passing through Salonica on its way to southern Europe.2 By the century's end , the old , small wooden landing ...
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... Europe . Initially the empire lay outside the so - called Con- cert of Great Powers . But in the Treaty of Paris which concluded the Crimean War in 1856 it was recognized for the first ... Europe 173 Travellers and the European Imagination.
... Europe . Initially the empire lay outside the so - called Con- cert of Great Powers . But in the Treaty of Paris which concluded the Crimean War in 1856 it was recognized for the first ... Europe 173 Travellers and the European Imagination.
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... Europe , " wrote Urquhart . " So the Turk in contact with Euro- peans and the Europeans among the Turks . The two systems , when in juxtaposition , and not under the control of a mind that grasps both , are mutually destructive ... Ill ...
... Europe , " wrote Urquhart . " So the Turk in contact with Euro- peans and the Europeans among the Turks . The two systems , when in juxtaposition , and not under the control of a mind that grasps both , are mutually destructive ... Ill ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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