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
... forced to leave the city so that they could hand themselves over . Manuel himself paid homage to the emir Murad , and even fought for his new sovereign before being crowned emperor . Had the city remained uninterruptedly under Ottoman ...
... forced to leave the city so that they could hand themselves over . Manuel himself paid homage to the emir Murad , and even fought for his new sovereign before being crowned emperor . Had the city remained uninterruptedly under Ottoman ...
Page 30
... forced the defenders back from the parapets . Crowds of ghazi fighters , spurred on by the sultan's words , attacked the walls " like wild animals . ” Within a few hours , one had scaled the blind side of the Trigonion tower , cut off ...
... forced the defenders back from the parapets . Crowds of ghazi fighters , spurred on by the sultan's words , attacked the walls " like wild animals . ” Within a few hours , one had scaled the blind side of the Trigonion tower , cut off ...
Page 35
... forced reset- tlement worked : the settlers kick - started Salonica's economy and more than doubled its population within a few years . The first extant Ottoman records , from 1478 , show that unlike the Christian popula- tion , who ...
... forced reset- tlement worked : the settlers kick - started Salonica's economy and more than doubled its population within a few years . The first extant Ottoman records , from 1478 , show that unlike the Christian popula- tion , who ...
Page 47
... forced thousands from a home- land where they had known great security and prosperity . Sicily and Sardinia , Navarre , Provence and Naples followed suit . By the mid- sixteenth century , Jews had been evicted from much of western ...
... forced thousands from a home- land where they had known great security and prosperity . Sicily and Sardinia , Navarre , Provence and Naples followed suit . By the mid- sixteenth century , Jews had been evicted from much of western ...
Page 50
... forced migration from " the lands of the West . " Some were Jews ; others were converts to Catholicism . With their families forced apart , many mourned dead relatives , and wondered if their missing ones would ever return or if new ...
... forced migration from " the lands of the West . " Some were Jews ; others were converts to Catholicism . With their families forced apart , many mourned dead relatives , and wondered if their missing ones would ever return or if new ...
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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