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 206
... leave them there . I'd have to break them to free the road but what a deplorable necessity ! Then they would be justified in calling us barbar- ians . Better it would have been to leave the monument and rest content with taking only the ...
... leave them there . I'd have to break them to free the road but what a deplorable necessity ! Then they would be justified in calling us barbar- ians . Better it would have been to leave the monument and rest content with taking only the ...
Page 323
... leave . 19 For Salonica , therefore , the 1923 population exchange completed what 1912 had begun the dispossession and disappearance of the group which had dominated its life over the preceding five centuries . Although the city was by ...
... leave . 19 For Salonica , therefore , the 1923 population exchange completed what 1912 had begun the dispossession and disappearance of the group which had dominated its life over the preceding five centuries . Although the city was by ...
Page 327
... leave the city of Thessaloniki expired on 26 December , we are informed that there will be a detailed census of those remaining after that date . . . Those who do not have a special permit to remain for a specified period of time will ...
... leave the city of Thessaloniki expired on 26 December , we are informed that there will be a detailed census of those remaining after that date . . . Those who do not have a special permit to remain for a specified period of time will ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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