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 35
... ( later ) the firing of guns at Bairam . At Ramadan , the bustle of the markets subsided , and even non - Muslims avoided eating in public , and waited for the sound of the fortress cannon at dusk to mark the onset of the nightly street ...
... ( later ) the firing of guns at Bairam . At Ramadan , the bustle of the markets subsided , and even non - Muslims avoided eating in public , and waited for the sound of the fortress cannon at dusk to mark the onset of the nightly street ...
Page 288
... Later they ceded the use of the port , and grudgingly made the post , telegraph and railways available . But it was a tense and anomalous situation : the Greeks felt they were being forced into the war against their will , and the ...
... Later they ceded the use of the port , and grudgingly made the post , telegraph and railways available . But it was a tense and anomalous situation : the Greeks felt they were being forced into the war against their will , and the ...
Page 361
... later , another plane brought in members of the Revolu- tionary Committee . In 1930 , fifteen years after the first Zeppelin attack on the city , an English hydroplane , named " City of Salonica " for the occasion , landed in the bay ...
... later , another plane brought in members of the Revolu- tionary Committee . In 1930 , fifteen years after the first Zeppelin attack on the city , an English hydroplane , named " City of Salonica " for the occasion , landed in the bay ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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