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 12
... , more than ninety - five per cent of the inhabitants were , by any definition , Greek . The old empires collapsed and nations fought their way into being , identities changed and people were labelled in new ways : I 2 Introduction.
... , more than ninety - five per cent of the inhabitants were , by any definition , Greek . The old empires collapsed and nations fought their way into being , identities changed and people were labelled in new ways : I 2 Introduction.
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... inhabitants are Christians, but they are also recognisably Romans. Incorporated into the church's structure is part of the original baths, the place of the saints martyrdom, which became a site of pilgrimage in the following centuries ...
... inhabitants are Christians, but they are also recognisably Romans. Incorporated into the church's structure is part of the original baths, the place of the saints martyrdom, which became a site of pilgrimage in the following centuries ...
Page 17
... inhabitants spoke Greek . But of this Greek past , only traces sur- vived the Ottoman conquest . A few Christian survivors returned and saw their great churches turned into mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial palace fell into ...
... inhabitants spoke Greek . But of this Greek past , only traces sur- vived the Ottoman conquest . A few Christian survivors returned and saw their great churches turned into mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial palace fell into ...
Page 19
... inhabitants an easy and comforting sense of orientation : from earliest times , they could see the Gulf before them with Mount Olympos across the bay in the distance , the forested hills and mountains rising behind them , the well ...
... inhabitants an easy and comforting sense of orientation : from earliest times , they could see the Gulf before them with Mount Olympos across the bay in the distance , the forested hills and mountains rising behind them , the well ...
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... inhabitants.3 " From water comes everything " runs the inscription on an Ottoman fountain still preserved in the Upper Town . Fed by rivers and rains and moisture rising from the bay , water bathes the city and its surroundings in a ...
... inhabitants.3 " From water comes everything " runs the inscription on an Ottoman fountain still preserved in the Upper Town . Fed by rivers and rains and moisture rising from the bay , water bathes the city and its surroundings in a ...
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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