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 18
... hundreds who stroll here in the summer evenings , escaping the stuffy backstreets for the refreshment of the sea breeze as the sun dips behind the mountains . But in 1992 , after the collapse of Yugoslavia led the neighbouring republic ...
... hundreds who stroll here in the summer evenings , escaping the stuffy backstreets for the refreshment of the sea breeze as the sun dips behind the mountains . But in 1992 , after the collapse of Yugoslavia led the neighbouring republic ...
Page 19
... hundred- kilometre lifeline between Italy and Anatolia , the Via Egnatia , it straddled . Poised between Europe and Asia , the Mediterranean and the Balkans , the interface of two climatic zones brings Salonica highly changeable air ...
... hundred- kilometre lifeline between Italy and Anatolia , the Via Egnatia , it straddled . Poised between Europe and Asia , the Mediterranean and the Balkans , the interface of two climatic zones brings Salonica highly changeable air ...
Page 20
... hundreds of years it emanated " putrid fevers , ” noxious exha- lations and agues which drove horses mad , and manifested them- selves before the age of pesticide in the " sallow cheeks and bloodless lips " of the city's inhabitants.3 ...
... hundreds of years it emanated " putrid fevers , ” noxious exha- lations and agues which drove horses mad , and manifested them- selves before the age of pesticide in the " sallow cheeks and bloodless lips " of the city's inhabitants.3 ...
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... hundred years was henceforth established : a predominantly Slavic peasantry cultivated the soil and was kept under the political and economic control of non - Slav elites based in the city . But frontiers are places of interaction , and ...
... hundred years was henceforth established : a predominantly Slavic peasantry cultivated the soil and was kept under the political and economic control of non - Slav elites based in the city . But frontiers are places of interaction , and ...
Page 25
... hundred years into the greatest force in the world . Osman Ghazi , the founder of the Ottoman dynasty , initially ruled a small emirate on the frontier with Byzantine territory in Anato- lia . To his east lay more powerful Muslim emirs ...
... hundred years into the greatest force in the world . Osman Ghazi , the founder of the Ottoman dynasty , initially ruled a small emirate on the frontier with Byzantine territory in Anato- lia . To his east lay more powerful Muslim emirs ...
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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