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 54
... ports . Italian , Arab and Armenian merchants all participated in this traffic : but where the crucial Mediterranean ... port for Venetian dealings with the Levant , and wielded their Ottoman connections whenever the Papacy and the ...
... ports . Italian , Arab and Armenian merchants all participated in this traffic : but where the crucial Mediterranean ... port for Venetian dealings with the Levant , and wielded their Ottoman connections whenever the Papacy and the ...
Page 166
... port . " Signor Tavoulari ” began life as a Bulgarian Christian , made his fortune under Russian and Swedish protection , importing counterfeit Turkish coin from Greece , and left the city with an " Ionian " passport ( at that time the ...
... port . " Signor Tavoulari ” began life as a Bulgarian Christian , made his fortune under Russian and Swedish protection , importing counterfeit Turkish coin from Greece , and left the city with an " Ionian " passport ( at that time the ...
Page 225
... port . His strategy for Salonica was very similar to open it up by demolishing stretches of the walls and extending its commercial and harbour facilities . Up to then , the old sea - wall had stood as a barrier to the outside world ...
... port . His strategy for Salonica was very similar to open it up by demolishing stretches of the walls and extending its commercial and harbour facilities . Up to then , the old sea - wall had stood as a barrier to the outside world ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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