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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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. I Conquest , 1430 BEGINNINGS BEFORE THE CITY FELL IN 1430 , it ... Christian survivors returned and saw their great churches turned into mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. I Conquest , 1430 BEGINNINGS BEFORE THE CITY FELL IN 1430 , it ... Christian survivors returned and saw their great churches turned into mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial ...
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... Christian faith . The Ottomans understood the term this way as well : when they talked about the " community of Romans " ( Rum millet ) they meant Orthodox Christians , not necessarily Greeks ; Rum was Byzantine Ana- tolia ; Rumeli the ...
... Christian faith . The Ottomans understood the term this way as well : when they talked about the " community of Romans " ( Rum millet ) they meant Orthodox Christians , not necessarily Greeks ; Rum was Byzantine Ana- tolia ; Rumeli the ...
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... Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new religion : the Rotonda had been converted from pagan use , and chapels , shrines and Christian graveyards were spread- ing with astonishing speed across the city ...
... Christianity had triumphed on its own terms and turned itself into a new religion : the Rotonda had been converted from pagan use , and chapels , shrines and Christian graveyards were spread- ing with astonishing speed across the city ...
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. bay in a series of miracles which were collected , written down ... Christian liturgy into Slavic and spread Christ's message across eastern Europe . The extent of their suc- cess was ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. bay in a series of miracles which were collected , written down ... Christian liturgy into Slavic and spread Christ's message across eastern Europe . The extent of their suc- cess was ...
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. gering from crisis to crisis . Ambitious Bulgarian and Serb ... Christian shrines , espousing a surprisingly open attitude to Christianity itself . They were in many ways heirs to ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. gering from crisis to crisis . Ambitious Bulgarian and Serb ... Christian shrines , espousing a surprisingly open attitude to Christianity itself . They were in many ways heirs to ...
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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