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 21
... building still in use in the city , whose holy space has since attracted saints , dervishes and devotees of modern art and jazz . Even before the birth of Christ Salonica was a provincial capital with substantial municipal priv- ileges ...
... building still in use in the city , whose holy space has since attracted saints , dervishes and devotees of modern art and jazz . Even before the birth of Christ Salonica was a provincial capital with substantial municipal priv- ileges ...
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... buildings , sometimes carved specially for the church , cover the entire range of Roman design in the centuries when Christianity began to take hold of the empire . Byzantium is the name 22 SALONICA , CITY O F GHOSTS.
... buildings , sometimes carved specially for the church , cover the entire range of Roman design in the centuries when Christianity began to take hold of the empire . Byzantium is the name 22 SALONICA , CITY O F GHOSTS.
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... building up Ottoman power in the Balkans and Anatolia , but he preferred a life of spiritual contemplation , tried twice to withdraw from the throne , and was eventually buried in the mausoleum he had designed himself at Bursa , a building ...
... building up Ottoman power in the Balkans and Anatolia , but he preferred a life of spiritual contemplation , tried twice to withdraw from the throne , and was eventually buried in the mausoleum he had designed himself at Bursa , a building ...
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... buildings , looking for hid- den valuables behind icons and inside tombs : " They gathered up men , women , children , people of all ages , bound like animals , and marched them all to the camp outside the city . Nor do I speak of those ...
... buildings , looking for hid- den valuables behind icons and inside tombs : " They gathered up men , women , children , people of all ages , bound like animals , and marched them all to the camp outside the city . Nor do I speak of those ...
Page 31
... buildings lay empty . 16 In the Acheiropoietos church the sultan held a victory thanks- giving service . Then he had the building turned into a mosque , and ordered a laconic inscription to be chiselled into a marble column in the north ...
... buildings lay empty . 16 In the Acheiropoietos church the sultan held a victory thanks- giving service . Then he had the building turned into a mosque , and ordered a laconic inscription to be chiselled into a marble column in the north ...
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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