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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... century , Murad's successor Bayazid I — the Thunderbolt - was styling himself Sultan . Thanks to the distortive effects of both sixteenth - century Ottoman ideology ( when the empire's rulers were keen to demonstrate the purity of their ...
... century , Murad's successor Bayazid I — the Thunderbolt - was styling himself Sultan . Thanks to the distortive effects of both sixteenth - century Ottoman ideology ( when the empire's rulers were keen to demonstrate the purity of their ...
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... century advance westwards , Salonica benefited from the pacification of the countryside and the consolidation of Ottoman authority along the old Roman Via Egnatia . For the first time in centuries , after the acute fragmentation and ...
... century advance westwards , Salonica benefited from the pacification of the countryside and the consolidation of Ottoman authority along the old Roman Via Egnatia . For the first time in centuries , after the acute fragmentation and ...
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... century Spain , " American Historical Review , 74 : 1 ( 1968 ) , 1-25 . 6. A. Marx , " The expulsion of the Jews from Spain : two new accounts , " in his Studies in Jewish History and Booklore ( New York , 1944 ) , 96 . 7. Cited in A ...
... century Spain , " American Historical Review , 74 : 1 ( 1968 ) , 1-25 . 6. A. Marx , " The expulsion of the Jews from Spain : two new accounts , " in his Studies in Jewish History and Booklore ( New York , 1944 ) , 96 . 7. Cited in A ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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