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 27
... Turkish garrison manned the Acropolis . The town's ruler Manuel Palaeologue had wanted to resist , but he was shouted down by the inhabitants , and ... Turks to con- firm them in office , and one " said openly 27 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... Turkish garrison manned the Acropolis . The town's ruler Manuel Palaeologue had wanted to resist , but he was shouted down by the inhabitants , and ... Turks to con- firm them in office , and one " said openly 27 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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... Turks for patriarchs , emperors and protectors . " " 13 Unfortunately for Salonica , the Byzantine emperor Manuel could not resist taking advantage of the Ottomans ' own difficulties to try to wrest the city back for himself . For in ...
... Turks for patriarchs , emperors and protectors . " " 13 Unfortunately for Salonica , the Byzantine emperor Manuel could not resist taking advantage of the Ottomans ' own difficulties to try to wrest the city back for himself . For in ...
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... Turks . Others passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the walls was as powerful as it had ever been , its numbers swelled by Murad's prom- ises of good treatment if the city gave in . To the ...
... Turks . Others passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the walls was as powerful as it had ever been , its numbers swelled by Murad's prom- ises of good treatment if the city gave in . To the ...
Page 37
... Turks adapted this model for the harsher conditions of central Anatolia by covering the courtyard with a dome , often adding a small prayer room at the back . Over time , the domed prayer - hall became larger still and was integrated ...
... Turks adapted this model for the harsher conditions of central Anatolia by covering the courtyard with a dome , often adding a small prayer room at the back . Over time , the domed prayer - hall became larger still and was integrated ...
Page 54
... Turks must have been astonished at the assertiveness of the newcomers , for the Romaniote and Ashkenazi Jews they had known had always kept a low profile . In the early years , it is true , the Sefardim tried to tread cautiously ...
... Turks must have been astonished at the assertiveness of the newcomers , for the Romaniote and Ashkenazi Jews they had known had always kept a low profile . In the early years , it is true , the Sefardim tried to tread cautiously ...
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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