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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... church shows how deeply the city's Greco - Roman culture had been impregnated with Christian rituals and doctrines ... church's founders . Another saint , Sergios , is depicted in a purple chiton with military insignia around his neck ...
... church shows how deeply the city's Greco - Roman culture had been impregnated with Christian rituals and doctrines ... church's founders . Another saint , Sergios , is depicted in a purple chiton with military insignia around his neck ...
Page 87
... Church above the rest because " the Greeks don't depart from evangelical teachings and from church traditions and ... they don't introduce anything new into their religion or remove anything . " The very conservatism denounced by ...
... Church above the rest because " the Greeks don't depart from evangelical teachings and from church traditions and ... they don't introduce anything new into their religion or remove anything . " The very conservatism denounced by ...
Page 436
... church leaders called for an all - night vigil . Police had to be called to guard the building as a large crowd began to chant slogans : " Not a synagogue , nor a mosque but a Greek church ! " and " This is not Greece , not Albania ...
... church leaders called for an all - night vigil . Police had to be called to guard the building as a large crowd began to chant slogans : " Not a synagogue , nor a mosque but a Greek church ! " and " This is not Greece , not Albania ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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