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 43
... side by side , probably because Murad had settled newcomers in the homes of departed or dead Christians . Indeed Christians still outnumbered Muslims in the old quarters on either side of the main street . Only in the Upper Town - a ...
... side by side , probably because Murad had settled newcomers in the homes of departed or dead Christians . Indeed Christians still outnumbered Muslims in the old quarters on either side of the main street . Only in the Upper Town - a ...
Page 94
... side of the city . Both men were engaging the Venetians by land and sea , and Salonica was a crucial staging - post ... side of the walls for security , and even today a tiny lane , barely a car's width , snaking round the outside ...
... side of the city . Both men were engaging the Venetians by land and sea , and Salonica was a crucial staging - post ... side of the walls for security , and even today a tiny lane , barely a car's width , snaking round the outside ...
Page 323
... side was to find ways to house them , and in his mind this meant expelling the country's remaining Muslims so that their property could be utilized . That suited the new regime in Turkey too : not only would their control of the much ...
... side was to find ways to house them , and in his mind this meant expelling the country's remaining Muslims so that their property could be utilized . That suited the new regime in Turkey too : not only would their control of the much ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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