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 39
... build market complexes and other buildings of public utility . Bayazid II , who wintered in Salonica during his Balkan campaigns at the end of the fifteenth century , erected a new six - domed stone bezesten ( market building ) , for ...
... build market complexes and other buildings of public utility . Bayazid II , who wintered in Salonica during his Balkan campaigns at the end of the fifteenth century , erected a new six - domed stone bezesten ( market building ) , for ...
Page 207
... building works and stored finds in the courtyard of the governor's mansion , before sending the best pieces on to ... build a museum in Salonica itself , these were still on paper only when the Greek army took the city in 1912.24 THE ...
... building works and stored finds in the courtyard of the governor's mansion , before sending the best pieces on to ... build a museum in Salonica itself , these were still on paper only when the Greek army took the city in 1912.24 THE ...
Page 397
... build a new university campus . The univer- sity , which had started out in the old Villa Allatini , had been penned for most of the interwar period into the old Ottoman Idadié building on the cemetery's edge . Negotiations between the ...
... build a new university campus . The univer- sity , which had started out in the old Villa Allatini , had been penned for most of the interwar period into the old Ottoman Idadié building on the cemetery's edge . Negotiations between the ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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