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 29
... brought in mercenaries to pre- vent the defenders capitulating and the siege dragged on until in March 1430 Murad determined to end it . He left his hunting leopards , falcons and goshawks and joined his army before the city . Combining ...
... brought in mercenaries to pre- vent the defenders capitulating and the siege dragged on until in March 1430 Murad determined to end it . He left his hunting leopards , falcons and goshawks and joined his army before the city . Combining ...
Page 33
... brought back to life . The Venetians patched up their relations with the sultan and were allowed to set up a consulate one year after the conquest . But the city was a shadow of its former self , a mere vestige of the flourishing ...
... brought back to life . The Venetians patched up their relations with the sultan and were allowed to set up a consulate one year after the conquest . But the city was a shadow of its former self , a mere vestige of the flourishing ...
Page 34
... brought to be sold off , or entered the imperial service . + Yet the Sultan certainly did not intend to wipe out Christianity from the city . It was not only that this would have been economically harm- ful ; it would also have been ...
... brought to be sold off , or entered the imperial service . + Yet the Sultan certainly did not intend to wipe out Christianity from the city . It was not only that this would have been economically harm- ful ; it would also have been ...
Page 35
... brought the Islamiciza- tion of urban life . The centre of gravity of Balkan Christianity shifted into the rural areas where monasteries , especially in Mount Athos , prospered . The cities were more deeply altered . With the newcomers ...
... brought the Islamiciza- tion of urban life . The centre of gravity of Balkan Christianity shifted into the rural areas where monasteries , especially in Mount Athos , prospered . The cities were more deeply altered . With the newcomers ...
Page 41
... brought under the direct control of the sultan and placed by him under the supervision of appointed officers . There was no clear legal or institutional demarcation between the city and its rural hinterland - the same officials were ...
... brought under the direct control of the sultan and placed by him under the supervision of appointed officers . There was no clear legal or institutional demarcation between the city and its rural hinterland - the same officials were ...
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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