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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... wrote a journalist in 1881. Others felt drawn either by the risks , or by the sense of being at the centre of events . " The traveller in pursuit of the picturesque or in flight from the commonplace will find here what he seeks , " wrote ...
... wrote a journalist in 1881. Others felt drawn either by the risks , or by the sense of being at the centre of events . " The traveller in pursuit of the picturesque or in flight from the commonplace will find here what he seeks , " wrote ...
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... wrote a publi- cation of the Religious Tract Society , “ have at least an equal share with any classical associations in the enthusiasm which leads the traveller to brave the perils of Macedonia and Achaia . " To Salonica's classical ...
... wrote a publi- cation of the Religious Tract Society , “ have at least an equal share with any classical associations in the enthusiasm which leads the traveller to brave the perils of Macedonia and Achaia . " To Salonica's classical ...
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... wrote a British war correspondent , and armies could serve to bring progress , method and modern technol- ogy to those benighted regions which had suffered from ages of neglect and ignorance . Since 1915 , wrote the author of The ...
... wrote a British war correspondent , and armies could serve to bring progress , method and modern technol- ogy to those benighted regions which had suffered from ages of neglect and ignorance . Since 1915 , wrote the author of The ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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