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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... Ottoman lands — maps . As for the archives , they are endless - Ottoman , Venetian , Greek , Aus- trian , French , English , American - compiled conscientiously by gener- ations of long - departed foreign consuls . Drawing on such ...
... Ottoman lands — maps . As for the archives , they are endless - Ottoman , Venetian , Greek , Aus- trian , French , English , American - compiled conscientiously by gener- ations of long - departed foreign consuls . Drawing on such ...
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... Ottoman ideology ( when the empire's rulers were keen to demonstrate the purity of their Sunni credentials , following the conquest of the Arab provinces ) and nineteenth - century Balkan nationalism , the character of the early Ottoman ...
... Ottoman ideology ( when the empire's rulers were keen to demonstrate the purity of their Sunni credentials , following the conquest of the Arab provinces ) and nineteenth - century Balkan nationalism , the character of the early Ottoman ...
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... Ottoman emirs , and when he spearheaded the Ottoman assault on northern Greece the value of his support was recognized by them with huge grants of land . The fiefdoms his family won in the vicinity of Salonica made them among the ...
... Ottoman emirs , and when he spearheaded the Ottoman assault on northern Greece the value of his support was recognized by them with huge grants of land . The fiefdoms his family won in the vicinity of Salonica made them among the ...
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... Ottoman armies ; the Via Egnatia fell into their hands , and even the canny monks of Mount Athos sub- mitted . Salonica itself was blockaded for the first time in 1383 , and in April 1387 , surrendered without a fight . On this occasion ...
... Ottoman armies ; the Via Egnatia fell into their hands , and even the canny monks of Mount Athos sub- mitted . Salonica itself was blockaded for the first time in 1383 , and in April 1387 , surrendered without a fight . On this occasion ...
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... Ottoman army suffered the most crushing defeat of its entire history at the hands of the Mon- gol khan Tamurlane . Sultan Bayazid died in captivity and his defeat led directly to a vicious Ottoman civil war which lasted nearly twenty ...
... Ottoman army suffered the most crushing defeat of its entire history at the hands of the Mon- gol khan Tamurlane . Sultan Bayazid died in captivity and his defeat led directly to a vicious Ottoman civil war which lasted nearly twenty ...
Contents
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The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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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