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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... crowd , Selim Bey replied : " I had not sufficient force - only 20 men - and the crowd was composed of 100 men at least . ” 25 News of the affair spread to the bazaar and armed Albanians joined the other protestors at the nearby Saatli ...
... crowd , Selim Bey replied : " I had not sufficient force - only 20 men - and the crowd was composed of 100 men at least . ” 25 News of the affair spread to the bazaar and armed Albanians joined the other protestors at the nearby Saatli ...
Page 257
... crowd responded immediately . " There was indescribable delirium , " wrote a French officer watching the scene . Soon army offi- cers and civilian CUP supporters - including Jews , Greeks and Bulgar- ians were speechifying from the ...
... crowd responded immediately . " There was indescribable delirium , " wrote a French officer watching the scene . Soon army offi- cers and civilian CUP supporters - including Jews , Greeks and Bulgar- ians were speechifying from the ...
Page 436
... crowd began to chant slogans : " Not a synagogue , nor a mosque but a Greek church ! " and " This is not Greece , not Albania ; onwards for Macedonia and Orthodoxy ! " Eventually hundreds of the protestors forced their way through the ...
... crowd began to chant slogans : " Not a synagogue , nor a mosque but a Greek church ! " and " This is not Greece , not Albania ; onwards for Macedonia and Orthodoxy ! " Eventually hundreds of the protestors forced their way through the ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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