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 128
... hundred Chris- tians - of whom one hundred were monks from Athos - were under guard in his palace . All these , naturally , were being beaten and mis- treated ; some had been already killed . Shortly after this the order came through ...
... hundred Chris- tians - of whom one hundred were monks from Athos - were under guard in his palace . All these , naturally , were being beaten and mis- treated ; some had been already killed . Shortly after this the order came through ...
Page 138
... hundred houses were burned . As the British consul reported : His Excellency Yacoub Pasha evinced the most extraordinary , if not cruel , apathy , smoking his pipe and quietly looking at the fire without giving one single para to urge ...
... hundred houses were burned . As the British consul reported : His Excellency Yacoub Pasha evinced the most extraordinary , if not cruel , apathy , smoking his pipe and quietly looking at the fire without giving one single para to urge ...
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... hundred , who had escaped into the mountains , or gone to fight with the partisans , now made their way back . Hundreds more had survived in hiding in or around Athens and many of these also gradually returned . But first - hand news of ...
... hundred , who had escaped into the mountains , or gone to fight with the partisans , now made their way back . Hundreds more had survived in hiding in or around Athens and many of these also gradually returned . But first - hand news of ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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