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 185
... Turkish war.21 In fact , more or less the only activity which the average European undertook alone in the city was shopping for gifts in the Kapalı Çarsi- one of the largest and most impressive covered arcades in the Turkish provinces ...
... Turkish war.21 In fact , more or less the only activity which the average European undertook alone in the city was shopping for gifts in the Kapalı Çarsi- one of the largest and most impressive covered arcades in the Turkish provinces ...
Page 263
... Turkish nationalists had been raging within the ranks of the CUP for some years . But who , or what , was a Turk ? Although Europeans had been talking about " Turks " for centuries , it had not been a term much used within the empire ...
... Turkish nationalists had been raging within the ranks of the CUP for some years . But who , or what , was a Turk ? Although Europeans had been talking about " Turks " for centuries , it had not been a term much used within the empire ...
Page 264
... Turkish civiliza- tion . " The old Arabic and Persian elements in Ottoman Turkish would be eradicated and its literature consigned to the past . Ziya Gökalp , often regarded as the founding father of the nationalist movement , had ...
... Turkish civiliza- tion . " The old Arabic and Persian elements in Ottoman Turkish would be eradicated and its literature consigned to the past . Ziya Gökalp , often regarded as the founding father of the nationalist movement , had ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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