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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... Town ; below them , a broad dusty path winds lazily down past cypresses and minarets into the town itself , half - hidden in the lethargic haze of an August afternoon . A cholera epidemic was rag- ing at the time of his visit , and Lear ...
... Town ; below them , a broad dusty path winds lazily down past cypresses and minarets into the town itself , half - hidden in the lethargic haze of an August afternoon . A cholera epidemic was rag- ing at the time of his visit , and Lear ...
Page 301
... town , wailing on the still night air sounded the muezzin's calls : ' Alla - hu - akbar ! ' " 3 In 1917 , the brick frontier advancing slowly southeastwards over centuries from the seaboard of northern Europe had not yet reached the ...
... town , wailing on the still night air sounded the muezzin's calls : ' Alla - hu - akbar ! ' " 3 In 1917 , the brick frontier advancing slowly southeastwards over centuries from the seaboard of northern Europe had not yet reached the ...
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... town of Ayia Foteini . In the Upper Town , however , where most of the 4700 vacant private properties were to be found , less was destroyed . Its villas were large and often possessed spacious courtyards and grounds : refugee families ...
... town of Ayia Foteini . In the Upper Town , however , where most of the 4700 vacant private properties were to be found , less was destroyed . Its villas were large and often possessed spacious courtyards and grounds : refugee families ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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