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 114
... TRADE ACCORDING TO THE SIXTEENTH - CENTURY Ottoman cartogra- pher Piri Reis , Salonica's harbour could hold at least three hundred ves- sels . A hundred years later ships were calling from " the Black Sea , the White Sea [ the Aegean ] ...
... TRADE ACCORDING TO THE SIXTEENTH - CENTURY Ottoman cartogra- pher Piri Reis , Salonica's harbour could hold at least three hundred ves- sels . A hundred years later ships were calling from " the Black Sea , the White Sea [ the Aegean ] ...
Page 115
... trade took off as well , passing through Salonica on its way to southern Europe.2 By the century's end , the old , small wooden landing stage , unable to handle more than two or three vessels a day , was clearly insufficient for the ...
... trade took off as well , passing through Salonica on its way to southern Europe.2 By the century's end , the old , small wooden landing stage , unable to handle more than two or three vessels a day , was clearly insufficient for the ...
Page 211
... trade , and Abdul Mecid estab- lished a Ministry of Trade and a Council of Public Works . The aboli- tion of monopolies and the freeing - up of the grain trade allowed the city to forge new trading linkages with the dynamic ...
... trade , and Abdul Mecid estab- lished a Ministry of Trade and a Council of Public Works . The aboli- tion of monopolies and the freeing - up of the grain trade allowed the city to forge new trading linkages with the dynamic ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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