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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Page 26
... Muslims , their rulers married Serbian and Greek princesses- which meant that many Ottoman sultans had Christian mothers ... Muslim Turks , many opted for the latter . Written off as an embarrassment by later Greek commentators , the pro ...
... Muslims , their rulers married Serbian and Greek princesses- which meant that many Ottoman sultans had Christian mothers ... Muslim Turks , many opted for the latter . Written off as an embarrassment by later Greek commentators , the pro ...
Page 34
... Muslim custom in cases where towns had been won by force , a few churches were converted into mosques , looted for building materi- als , turned into private homes or abandoned . But how many were taken over at the start is hard to say ...
... Muslim custom in cases where towns had been won by force , a few churches were converted into mosques , looted for building materi- als , turned into private homes or abandoned . But how many were taken over at the start is hard to say ...
Page 35
... Muslims avoided eating in public , and waited for the sound of the fortress cannon at dusk to mark the onset of the nightly ... Muslim learning there . The appointee , mevlana Qivam ed - Din , was granted a salary of 20 aspers daily and ...
... Muslims avoided eating in public , and waited for the sound of the fortress cannon at dusk to mark the onset of the nightly ... Muslim learning there . The appointee , mevlana Qivam ed - Din , was granted a salary of 20 aspers daily and ...
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... Muslims of Rumeli to pray five times a day an indication that the climate of observance in the Balkans was rather different from that in Anatolia . But elsewhere in the Balkans , the towns themselves at least were emphatically Muslim ...
... Muslims of Rumeli to pray five times a day an indication that the climate of observance in the Balkans was rather different from that in Anatolia . But elsewhere in the Balkans , the towns themselves at least were emphatically Muslim ...
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... Muslim traders from the four corners of the globe and god - fearing sailors and sea - captains make their prayers in ... Muslims and indeed had had a similar institution in Byzantine times . By 1498 , the canny monks of the Vlatadon ...
... Muslim traders from the four corners of the globe and god - fearing sailors and sea - captains make their prayers in ... Muslims and indeed had had a similar institution in Byzantine times . By 1498 , the canny monks of the Vlatadon ...
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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