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 177
... travellers were still oddities . On a steamer from Constantinople , a German passenger fell into conversation with a French salesman . Why was he going to Salonica ? he was asked . “ For amusement ? To Salonica ? To this boring and most ...
... travellers were still oddities . On a steamer from Constantinople , a German passenger fell into conversation with a French salesman . Why was he going to Salonica ? he was asked . “ For amusement ? To Salonica ? To this boring and most ...
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... travellers com- mented , as their predecessors never had , on differences in hygiene , noise and smell , and sought to create small islands of civilization for themselves to escape these . Staying in Turkish caravanserais and khans - as ...
... travellers com- mented , as their predecessors never had , on differences in hygiene , noise and smell , and sought to create small islands of civilization for themselves to escape these . Staying in Turkish caravanserais and khans - as ...
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... Travellers and the European Imagination 1. F. Baumer , “ England , the Turk and the Common Corps of Christen- dom , " American Historical Review ( 1944 ) . 2. A. Oakes and R. B. Mowat , eds . , The Great European Treaties of the Nine ...
... Travellers and the European Imagination 1. F. Baumer , “ England , the Turk and the Common Corps of Christen- dom , " American Historical Review ( 1944 ) . 2. A. Oakes and R. B. Mowat , eds . , The Great European Treaties of the Nine ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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