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 123
... houses between Odessa , Alexandria and Marseille . Men like the tobacco and cotton exporter Andronikos Paikos or " the most illustrious Signor Count Dimitrios Peroulis " paved the way . Their new wealth brought them prominence and ...
... houses between Odessa , Alexandria and Marseille . Men like the tobacco and cotton exporter Andronikos Paikos or " the most illustrious Signor Count Dimitrios Peroulis " paved the way . Their new wealth brought them prominence and ...
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... house was burnt , however , they made their way in silence out of the district . " 1 " It was an amazing and sad scene , " wrote Collinson Owen , " the wailing families , the crash of falling houses as the flames tore along , Burned ...
... house was burnt , however , they made their way in silence out of the district . " 1 " It was an amazing and sad scene , " wrote Collinson Owen , " the wailing families , the crash of falling houses as the flames tore along , Burned ...
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... houses , their façades faded in washes of pink , pale blue and ochre , preserved by their inhabitants ' poverty , still commanded the curving lanes of the Upper Town in the late 1970s . Today few are left ; most have been torn down and ...
... houses , their façades faded in washes of pink , pale blue and ochre , preserved by their inhabitants ' poverty , still commanded the curving lanes of the Upper Town in the late 1970s . Today few are left ; most have been torn down and ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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