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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... known in the Orthodox world - sacked Constantinople itself and carved up its pos- sessions . To the east , Byzantine power was largely spent . Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk sul- tans ...
... known in the Orthodox world - sacked Constantinople itself and carved up its pos- sessions . To the east , Byzantine power was largely spent . Turkish tribes had moved in from central Asia , and the rise and fall of the Seljuk sul- tans ...
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... known for their pro - Christian sympathies ; Murad himself was influenced by dervish orders which preached a sim- ilarly open - minded stance , and the family sheykh of the Evrenos family was reputed to be a protector of Christians . In ...
... known for their pro - Christian sympathies ; Murad himself was influenced by dervish orders which preached a sim- ilarly open - minded stance , and the family sheykh of the Evrenos family was reputed to be a protector of Christians . In ...
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... known as the vakf The vakf was a well - established Muslim institution . By endowing a property with revenues from rents on shops and land , the founder of a vakf relinquished his ownership of the property and its endowments but in ...
... known as the vakf The vakf was a well - established Muslim institution . By endowing a property with revenues from rents on shops and land , the founder of a vakf relinquished his ownership of the property and its endowments but in ...
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... known - lay under the sign of Pisces . Scribes provide one badly needed skill ; the fifteen hamam attendants a surprisingly high number at this early date- another . And the presence of merchants , a furrier , a jeweller and a sil ...
... known - lay under the sign of Pisces . Scribes provide one badly needed skill ; the fifteen hamam attendants a surprisingly high number at this early date- another . And the presence of merchants , a furrier , a jeweller and a sil ...
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... known but any who did were moved to Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror to repopulate it after its capture in 1453 , leaving their home - town entirely without a Jewish presence for perhaps the first time in over a 46 The Arrival of ...
... known but any who did were moved to Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror to repopulate it after its capture in 1453 , leaving their home - town entirely without a Jewish presence for perhaps the first time in over a 46 The Arrival of ...
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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