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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... land . The fiefdoms his family won in the vicinity of Salonica made them among the largest land - owners in the empire and a dominant force in the city well into the twentieth century . His descendants included Ottoman pashas and Young ...
... land . The fiefdoms his family won in the vicinity of Salonica made them among the largest land - owners in the empire and a dominant force in the city well into the twentieth century . His descendants included Ottoman pashas and Young ...
Page 145
... land- owner outside Izmir . For even Rahmi Bey could see that his family's long connection with the Salonica region was inevitably coming to an end . Later , between the two world wars , he was pushed to the margins of Turkish political ...
... land- owner outside Izmir . For even Rahmi Bey could see that his family's long connection with the Salonica region was inevitably coming to an end . Later , between the two world wars , he was pushed to the margins of Turkish political ...
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... Land communications lagged behind . " Sometimes you overtake long strings of camels led by the invariable little donkey , and laden with bales of merchandise , passing slowly along the road , ” noted a traveller in 1860. " And ...
... Land communications lagged behind . " Sometimes you overtake long strings of camels led by the invariable little donkey , and laden with bales of merchandise , passing slowly along the road , ” noted a traveller in 1860. " And ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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