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 255
... Army Corps which was stationed in the city . The loss of Greece , Serbia , Bosnia and Bulgaria , and the growing interference of the Euro- pean Powers in the life of the empire , alarmed many Muslims and renewed demands , dormant for ...
... Army Corps which was stationed in the city . The loss of Greece , Serbia , Bosnia and Bulgaria , and the growing interference of the Euro- pean Powers in the life of the empire , alarmed many Muslims and renewed demands , dormant for ...
Page 289
... army to allow the Bulgarians in . Here he over - reached himself , for this turned his constitutional dispute with Venizelos into a question of Greece's territorial integrity and national honour . Rolling back the victories of 1912-13 ...
... army to allow the Bulgarians in . Here he over - reached himself , for this turned his constitutional dispute with Venizelos into a question of Greece's territorial integrity and national honour . Rolling back the victories of 1912-13 ...
Page 320
... army officers seized power in a military coup , deposed the anti - Venizelist government and after a show trial executed the prime minister and five others whom they held responsible for the catastrophe . Martial law was declared in ...
... army officers seized power in a military coup , deposed the anti - Venizelist government and after a show trial executed the prime minister and five others whom they held responsible for the catastrophe . Martial law was declared in ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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