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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... once existed . The old houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam ...
... once existed . The old houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have been recently restored and visitors can see inside the magnificent fifteenth - century Bey Hamam ...
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... once been per- haps the most striking antiquity in the city.21 Over the next century , fires and urban redevelopment entirely erased all trace of the edifice . Because Miller failed to note its location or to draw a plan of the site ...
... once been per- haps the most striking antiquity in the city.21 Over the next century , fires and urban redevelopment entirely erased all trace of the edifice . Because Miller failed to note its location or to draw a plan of the site ...
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... once invited to an annual gathering of the Israelite Alliance , " wrote a British journalist during the First World War . " There were many hundreds of Jews there , male and female , and a great many of them were once removed only from ...
... once invited to an annual gathering of the Israelite Alliance , " wrote a British journalist during the First World War . " There were many hundreds of Jews there , male and female , and a great many of them were once removed only from ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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