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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... hand . " They followed the Hanafi school of Sunni law , the most tolerant and flexible in relation to non - Muslims , their rulers married Serbian and Greek princesses- which meant that many Ottoman sultans had Christian mothers — and ...
... hand . " They followed the Hanafi school of Sunni law , the most tolerant and flexible in relation to non - Muslims , their rulers married Serbian and Greek princesses- which meant that many Ottoman sultans had Christian mothers — and ...
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... hands , and even the canny monks of Mount Athos sub- mitted . Salonica itself was blockaded for the first time in 1383 ... hand themselves over . Manuel himself paid homage to the emir Murad , and even fought for his new sovereign before ...
... hands , and even the canny monks of Mount Athos sub- mitted . Salonica itself was blockaded for the first time in 1383 ... hand themselves over . Manuel himself paid homage to the emir Murad , and even fought for his new sovereign before ...
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... hands . Their mastery of the hinterland had turned the fortified city into a giant prison . Resistance meant certain enslavement . In 1429 Arch- bishop Symeon died , but the Venetians brought in mercenaries to pre- vent the defenders ...
... hands . Their mastery of the hinterland had turned the fortified city into a giant prison . Resistance meant certain enslavement . In 1429 Arch- bishop Symeon died , but the Venetians brought in mercenaries to pre- vent the defenders ...
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... hand them over to his comrades , lest someone stronger seize them from him , so that any slave who as he saw from old age or some illness perhaps could not keep up with the others , he cut his head off on the spot and reck- oned it a ...
... hand them over to his comrades , lest someone stronger seize them from him , so that any slave who as he saw from old age or some illness perhaps could not keep up with the others , he cut his head off on the spot and reck- oned it a ...
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... hand , Muslims never dominated the city numerically , and slipped from just under 50 % to 25 % of the population between the mid - fifteenth century and 1530. At the time of the first census of modern times - in 1831 - Salonica had the ...
... hand , Muslims never dominated the city numerically , and slipped from just under 50 % to 25 % of the population between the mid - fifteenth century and 1530. At the time of the first census of modern times - in 1831 - Salonica had the ...
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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