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 174
... the manifestation of forces evident in the empire as a whole , an empire transforming itself in the shadow of Europe . 9 Travellers and the European Imagination SEARCHING FOR THE PICTURESQUE 174 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
... the manifestation of forces evident in the empire as a whole , an empire transforming itself in the shadow of Europe . 9 Travellers and the European Imagination SEARCHING FOR THE PICTURESQUE 174 SALONICA , CITY OF GHOSTS.
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... European port in the Western Mediterranean . " 1 European visitors to the empire had not failed to notice the intru- sion of their own values . " The immobile Orient is no longer immo- bile , " wrote the Guide Joanne , “ and in the ...
... European port in the Western Mediterranean . " 1 European visitors to the empire had not failed to notice the intru- sion of their own values . " The immobile Orient is no longer immo- bile , " wrote the Guide Joanne , “ and in the ...
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... European bourgeois life were slowly erasing the old markers of reli- gious and communal difference . EUROPEAN FASHIONS WERE ALSO STEADILY INFILTRATING Salonica's middle - class homes . Around 1840 most people still lived in modestly ...
... European bourgeois life were slowly erasing the old markers of reli- gious and communal difference . EUROPEAN FASHIONS WERE ALSO STEADILY INFILTRATING Salonica's middle - class homes . Around 1840 most people still lived in modestly ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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