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 138
... fire without giving one single para to urge the people to exert them- selves . Most of the fire engines were taken away from the fire to be ready to protect the Konak of the Pasha and the Greek Arch- bishop's palace , the consequence ...
... fire without giving one single para to urge the people to exert them- selves . Most of the fire engines were taken away from the fire to be ready to protect the Konak of the Pasha and the Greek Arch- bishop's palace , the consequence ...
Page 298
... Fire AUGUST 18 , 1917 , was a typically hot and sunny summer's day . That afternoon a strong north wind was blowing across the city , as it had done for two or three days continuously . Henry Collinson Owen , a journalist serving with ...
... Fire AUGUST 18 , 1917 , was a typically hot and sunny summer's day . That afternoon a strong north wind was blowing across the city , as it had done for two or three days continuously . Henry Collinson Owen , a journalist serving with ...
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... fire , wrote a British soldier , " Salonica was a city of the dead . Its streets were deserted , its cafés and ... fire . " Forty years and three major fires later , an Ameri- can scholar , hoping to add to his collection of Judaica ...
... fire , wrote a British soldier , " Salonica was a city of the dead . Its streets were deserted , its cafés and ... fire . " Forty years and three major fires later , an Ameri- can scholar , hoping to add to his collection of Judaica ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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