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 42
... hand ; and on the other , keeping an eye on the local tax officials , especially those who had bought conces- sions for customs duties , and on the needs of the city in general . The collection of taxes and the running of the market ...
... hand ; and on the other , keeping an eye on the local tax officials , especially those who had bought conces- sions for customs duties , and on the needs of the city in general . The collection of taxes and the running of the market ...
Page 83
... hand , Ottoman domination was very much harder to accept . The Byzantine scholar Ioannis Evgenikos lamented the capture of " the most beautiful and God - fearing city of the Romans , " and a sense of loss continued to flow beneath the ...
... hand , Ottoman domination was very much harder to accept . The Byzantine scholar Ioannis Evgenikos lamented the capture of " the most beautiful and God - fearing city of the Romans , " and a sense of loss continued to flow beneath the ...
Page 279
... hand . Nevertheless , even the reduced Bulgarian presence constituted a daily challenge to the legitimacy of Hellenic rule at a time when internationally the Great Powers had still not determined the city's future . There were almost ...
... hand . Nevertheless , even the reduced Bulgarian presence constituted a daily challenge to the legitimacy of Hellenic rule at a time when internationally the Great Powers had still not determined the city's future . There were almost ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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