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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... young woman was Aziyadé.25 Pierre Loti - the " lotus " -was the pen - name of a young writer called Julien Viaud , acrobat , officer and adventurer , who was to become one of the most successful of Europe's Orientalists with his novels ...
... young woman was Aziyadé.25 Pierre Loti - the " lotus " -was the pen - name of a young writer called Julien Viaud , acrobat , officer and adventurer , who was to become one of the most successful of Europe's Orientalists with his novels ...
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... young men in neighbouring states were doing so in the empire itself . in The Young Turks behind the revolution of 1908 were youthful fig- ures who aimed to break the hold of the traditional grey - bearded Istan- bul statesmen . They ...
... young men in neighbouring states were doing so in the empire itself . in The Young Turks behind the revolution of 1908 were youthful fig- ures who aimed to break the hold of the traditional grey - bearded Istan- bul statesmen . They ...
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... young men and women to meet and touch , out of sight of their parents . " One cannot imagine how clearly on the faces of the dancers shows the enchantment and an aes- thetic satisfaction which comes from the pleasure of whirling around ...
... young men and women to meet and touch , out of sight of their parents . " One cannot imagine how clearly on the faces of the dancers shows the enchantment and an aes- thetic satisfaction which comes from the pleasure of whirling around ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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