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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... Europe 9 Travellers and the European Imagination IO The Possibilities of a Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint ...
... Europe 9 Travellers and the European Imagination IO The Possibilities of a Past II In the Frankish Style 12 The Macedonia Question , 1878-1908 13 The Young Turk Revolution PART III / Making the City Greek 14 The Return of Saint ...
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... Europe - survives only in the fond memories of a few ageing locals , in local belles - lettres , and in its streets - still bearing the old names , Afrodite , Bacchus - which now house nothing more excit- ing than car rental agencies ...
... Europe - survives only in the fond memories of a few ageing locals , in local belles - lettres , and in its streets - still bearing the old names , Afrodite , Bacchus - which now house nothing more excit- ing than car rental agencies ...
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... European history . Turkish scholars and writers , and professional Ottomanists , had not done much to rec- tify things . It suited everyone , it seemed , to ignore the fact that there had once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman ...
... European history . Turkish scholars and writers , and professional Ottomanists , had not done much to rec- tify things . It suited everyone , it seemed , to ignore the fact that there had once existed in this corner of Europe an Ottoman ...
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... Europe. The extent of their success was matched only by that with which others were spreading the word of Mohammed in the Middle East. The seeds of their mission were planted in Dalmatia, Hungary, Moravia and Poland; by the end of the ...
... Europe. The extent of their success was matched only by that with which others were spreading the word of Mohammed in the Middle East. The seeds of their mission were planted in Dalmatia, Hungary, Moravia and Poland; by the end of the ...
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... Europe , down which came Slavs ( in the sixth century ) , and Germans ( in 1941 ) while traders and NATO convoys ( on their way into Kosovo in 1999 ) went in the other direction . Its crucial position between East and West was also ...
... Europe , down which came Slavs ( in the sixth century ) , and Germans ( in 1941 ) while traders and NATO convoys ( on their way into Kosovo in 1999 ) went in the other direction . Its crucial position between East and West was also ...
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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