Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 544 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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... Balkan town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of Sultan Murad II ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ( Gen- nadius Library , American ...
... Balkan town ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) Portrait of Sultan Murad II ( By permission of the Topkapi Palace Museum ) A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress , Istanbul , 1574 ( Gen- nadius Library , American ...
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... of the untraceable copyright holders after the publication of this book , the author and the publisher will endeavour to rec- tify the position accordingly . Maps PAGE 4 The topography of the Balkans 90-91 Salonica's xiv Illustrations.
... of the untraceable copyright holders after the publication of this book , the author and the publisher will endeavour to rec- tify the position accordingly . Maps PAGE 4 The topography of the Balkans 90-91 Salonica's xiv Illustrations.
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... Balkans 90-91 Salonica's sacred geographies 176 Inside the Ottoman city 210 The first map of the Ottoman city , 1882 , showing the new sea frontage 214-215 The late Ottoman city and its surroundings , c . 1910 240-241 The late Ottoman ...
... Balkans 90-91 Salonica's sacred geographies 176 Inside the Ottoman city 210 The first map of the Ottoman city , 1882 , showing the new sea frontage 214-215 The late Ottoman city and its surroundings , c . 1910 240-241 The late Ottoman ...
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... Balkan Mts . Plovdiv Edirne Rhodope Mrs. Istanbul ( Constantinople ) Salonica Aegean Sea Izmir Patras Athens CRETE “ ເ 100 200 miles . Mediterranean Sea The topography of the Balkans Black Sea RHODES ket . Round the tables of Myrovolos ...
... Balkan Mts . Plovdiv Edirne Rhodope Mrs. Istanbul ( Constantinople ) Salonica Aegean Sea Izmir Patras Athens CRETE “ ເ 100 200 miles . Mediterranean Sea The topography of the Balkans Black Sea RHODES ket . Round the tables of Myrovolos ...
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... Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and the great foundations of Mount Athos attracted pilgrims, scholars and benefactors to the city as they made the journey to the Holy Mountain just to its east. Yet amid this cultural ferment, the ...
... Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and the great foundations of Mount Athos attracted pilgrims, scholars and benefactors to the city as they made the journey to the Holy Mountain just to its east. Yet amid this cultural ferment, the ...
Contents
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Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles | 64 |
Janissaries and Other Plagues | 94 |
Commerce and the Greeks | 114 |
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders | 133 |
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
In the Frankish Style | 209 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
Glossary | 469 |
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