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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... empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its ene- mies , and the judicious bribery of foreign allies . In the early fourteenth century , however , as Catalan mercenaries , Genoese , Venetians , Serbs and others fought for ...
... empire survived at all was owing to the weakness of its ene- mies , and the judicious bribery of foreign allies . In the early fourteenth century , however , as Catalan mercenaries , Genoese , Venetians , Serbs and others fought for ...
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... EMPIRE was an Islamic state and the Ottoman sultan was also Warrior of the Faith , Custodian of Sacred Relics ... empire's faiths . ' Reform meant , in the first place , a new attentiveness on the part of the sultan and his ministers to ...
... EMPIRE was an Islamic state and the Ottoman sultan was also Warrior of the Faith , Custodian of Sacred Relics ... empire's faiths . ' Reform meant , in the first place , a new attentiveness on the part of the sultan and his ministers to ...
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... Empire and Modern Turkey , 277 . 6. A. Sarrou , La Jeune Turquie et la Révo- lution , 25 . 7. FO 195/2298 , Yeni Asir , 1 Sept. 1908 ; 195/2328 Lamb - Lowther , 21 April 1909 . 8. Ibid . , Lamb - Lowther , 29 April 1909 . 9. F ...
... Empire and Modern Turkey , 277 . 6. A. Sarrou , La Jeune Turquie et la Révo- lution , 25 . 7. FO 195/2298 , Yeni Asir , 1 Sept. 1908 ; 195/2328 Lamb - Lowther , 21 April 1909 . 8. Ibid . , Lamb - Lowther , 29 April 1909 . 9. F ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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