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 24
... became a centre of humanistic learning and theological debate . Many new churches were established , turning it into a treasure - house of late Byzantine art . Monasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria , and the great ...
... became a centre of humanistic learning and theological debate . Many new churches were established , turning it into a treasure - house of late Byzantine art . Monasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria , and the great ...
Page 34
... became a notable benefac- tress . Churches and monasteries were reconfirmed in their possessions ( in one case perhaps , as a malicious fifteenth - century chronicler alleged , because the monks had helped the Turks conquer the town ) ...
... became a notable benefac- tress . Churches and monasteries were reconfirmed in their possessions ( in one case perhaps , as a malicious fifteenth - century chronicler alleged , because the monks had helped the Turks conquer the town ) ...
Page 35
... became landmarks for visi- tors , lit up during holidays and imperial celebrations . In 1853 the Oxford geographer Henry Tozer saw them each " circled by a ring of glittering lamps " ; as he sailed away by night " they formed a delicate ...
... became landmarks for visi- tors , lit up during holidays and imperial celebrations . In 1853 the Oxford geographer Henry Tozer saw them each " circled by a ring of glittering lamps " ; as he sailed away by night " they formed a delicate ...
Page 36
... became a major centre of Muslim piety or learning . It seems to have lacked sufficiently illustrious historical , religious or emotional associations . Its medresas remained relatively small and undistinguished , its mosques never ...
... became a major centre of Muslim piety or learning . It seems to have lacked sufficiently illustrious historical , religious or emotional associations . Its medresas remained relatively small and undistinguished , its mosques never ...
Page 37
... became larger still and was integrated into the main body of the building the shape chosen by the unknown architect of the Aladja Imaret . A large airy portico runs the length of the façade , and once sheltered refugees and beggars ...
... became larger still and was integrated into the main body of the building the shape chosen by the unknown architect of the Aladja Imaret . A large airy portico runs the length of the façade , and once sheltered refugees and beggars ...
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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