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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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. In fact Murad had set his heart on the city from the start . So far as he was concerned , it was not only a vital Mediterranean port , but belonged to him by right since it had already ...
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. In fact Murad had set his heart on the city from the start . So far as he was concerned , it was not only a vital Mediterranean port , but belonged to him by right since it had already ...
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... fact , once Murad realized the extent of its depopulation , he changed his mind and decided to bring in Muslim settlers as well . He handed over many properties to senior officials at his court , and crafts- men , attracted by tax ...
... fact , once Murad realized the extent of its depopulation , he changed his mind and decided to bring in Muslim settlers as well . He handed over many properties to senior officials at his court , and crafts- men , attracted by tax ...
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... fact , he quickly appointed a new archbishop , Gregorios , and his Serbian Orthodox wife , Mara , herself became a notable benefac- tress . Churches and monasteries were reconfirmed in their possessions ( in one case perhaps , as a ...
... fact , he quickly appointed a new archbishop , Gregorios , and his Serbian Orthodox wife , Mara , herself became a notable benefac- tress . Churches and monasteries were reconfirmed in their possessions ( in one case perhaps , as a ...
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... fact , most of the time under the sultans there was more meadow within the walls than housing . A Venetian ambassador passed through at the end of the sixteenth century and what struck him - despite the " fine and wide streets downtown ...
... fact , most of the time under the sultans there was more meadow within the walls than housing . A Venetian ambassador passed through at the end of the sixteenth century and what struck him - despite the " fine and wide streets downtown ...
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... fact words of one contempo- rary Jewish chronicler : " A part of the exiled Spaniards went overseas to Turkey . Some of them were thrown into the sea and drowned , but those who arrived there the king of Turkey received kindly , as they ...
... fact words of one contempo- rary Jewish chronicler : " A part of the exiled Spaniards went overseas to Turkey . Some of them were thrown into the sea and drowned , but those who arrived there the king of Turkey received kindly , as they ...
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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