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 5
... houses on Odos Egyptou ( Egypt Street ) , the dealers still installed in the old fifteenth - century multi - domed bezesten . This vigorous commercial- ism put even Athens to shame : here was a city which had remained much closer to the ...
... houses on Odos Egyptou ( Egypt Street ) , the dealers still installed in the old fifteenth - century multi - domed bezesten . This vigorous commercial- ism put even Athens to shame : here was a city which had remained much closer to the ...
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... house to house . Their elderly inhabitants were neatly dressed . Later I realized most had probably lived there since the 1920s , drawn from among the tens of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in the city after the ...
... house to house . Their elderly inhabitants were neatly dressed . Later I realized most had probably lived there since the 1920s , drawn from among the tens of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in the city after the ...
Page 7
... houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have ... house nothing more excit- ing than car rental agencies , garages and tyre - repair shops . But ridding the city of its ...
... houses were falling down and within a decade many of them had collapsed or been demolished . Some buildings have ... house nothing more excit- ing than car rental agencies , garages and tyre - repair shops . But ridding the city of its ...
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... house - owners sometimes dream that beneath their cellars lie Turkish janissaries and Byzantine necropoles . One reads stories of hidden Roman catacombs , doomed love - affairs and the unquiet souls who haunt the decaying villas near ...
... house - owners sometimes dream that beneath their cellars lie Turkish janissaries and Byzantine necropoles . One reads stories of hidden Roman catacombs , doomed love - affairs and the unquiet souls who haunt the decaying villas near ...
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... house of late Byzantine art. .\~Ionasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and the great foundations of Mount Athos attracted pilgrims, scholars and benefactors to the city as they made the journey to the Holy Mountain just ...
... house of late Byzantine art. .\~Ionasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and the great foundations of Mount Athos attracted pilgrims, scholars and benefactors to the city as they made the journey to the Holy Mountain just ...
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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