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 36
... population between the mid - fifteenth century and 1530. At the time of the first census of modern times - in 1831 - Salonica had the smallest Muslim population of any major Ottoman city . Yet to out- siders , its Islamic character was ...
... population between the mid - fifteenth century and 1530. At the time of the first census of modern times - in 1831 - Salonica had the smallest Muslim population of any major Ottoman city . Yet to out- siders , its Islamic character was ...
Page 284
... population in all its varied aspects . " 19 In fact , though never published , and soon rendered out of date by huge wartime shifts of population , the 1913 census gives us a first rea- sonably accurate snapshot of the modern city's ...
... population in all its varied aspects . " 19 In fact , though never published , and soon rendered out of date by huge wartime shifts of population , the 1913 census gives us a first rea- sonably accurate snapshot of the modern city's ...
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... population . How could an impoverished government , already struggling to rebuild it in the aftermath of the fire , possibly find shelter for all the newcomers ? 12 Residential housing , after all , was in very short supply . Departing ...
... population . How could an impoverished government , already struggling to rebuild it in the aftermath of the fire , possibly find shelter for all the newcomers ? 12 Residential housing , after all , was in very short supply . Departing ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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