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 30
... head of a wounded Venetian soldier and tossed it down . His fel- low ghazis quickly followed him up and threw open the main gates . The Venetian contingent fought their way to the port and boarded the waiting galleys . Behind them the ...
... head of a wounded Venetian soldier and tossed it down . His fel- low ghazis quickly followed him up and threw open the main gates . The Venetian contingent fought their way to the port and boarded the waiting galleys . Behind them the ...
Page 188
... head showed itself behind the discreet grilles of the haremlik . One would have said it was a dead city . I felt so perfectly alone that I felt a shock when I perceived near me , behind iron bars , at the height of a man's head , two ...
... head showed itself behind the discreet grilles of the haremlik . One would have said it was a dead city . I felt so perfectly alone that I felt a shock when I perceived near me , behind iron bars , at the height of a man's head , two ...
Page 354
... head of the secu- rity section had started in the gendarmerie on Ottoman Crete in 1901 , and the Ottoman term for these stoolpigeons , hafies , passed into Greek - the city's police chiefs ran large networks of spies , often placing two ...
... head of the secu- rity section had started in the gendarmerie on Ottoman Crete in 1901 , and the Ottoman term for these stoolpigeons , hafies , passed into Greek - the city's police chiefs ran large networks of spies , often placing two ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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