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 30
... less traumatic . A few months later , Ottoman troops went on to besiege the city of Jannina , and their commander , Sinan Pasha , advised the Greek archbishop to surrender peacefully " otherwise I will destroy the place to its ...
... less traumatic . A few months later , Ottoman troops went on to besiege the city of Jannina , and their commander , Sinan Pasha , advised the Greek archbishop to surrender peacefully " otherwise I will destroy the place to its ...
Page 32
... Less than one year later , an inscription above the entrance to the newly built main tower marked the swift comple- tion of his work . " This Acropolis , " it runs , " was conquered and cap- tured by force , from the hands of infidels ...
... Less than one year later , an inscription above the entrance to the newly built main tower marked the swift comple- tion of his work . " This Acropolis , " it runs , " was conquered and cap- tured by force , from the hands of infidels ...
Page 37
... less , at the busy central junction of Egnatia and Venizelos streets , small shops , a disused cinema , and tourist boutiques still cling to the sides of an elegantly domed mosque , one of the last in the city . Hamza Bey was one of ...
... less , at the busy central junction of Egnatia and Venizelos streets , small shops , a disused cinema , and tourist boutiques still cling to the sides of an elegantly domed mosque , one of the last in the city . Hamza Bey was one of ...
Page 49
... less than one quarter . Was it a sign of their growing weakness that between 1490 and 1540 several of their most magnificent churches including Ayios Dimitrios itself— were turned into mosques ? A century later still , if we are to ...
... less than one quarter . Was it a sign of their growing weakness that between 1490 and 1540 several of their most magnificent churches including Ayios Dimitrios itself— were turned into mosques ? A century later still , if we are to ...
Page 54
... less than two decades . After the fire of 1545 , a delegation from Salonica visited the Porte and quickly obtained permission for many to be rebuilt . 20 But the Iberian Jews had always known how to live well , and their noble families ...
... less than two decades . After the fire of 1545 , a delegation from Salonica visited the Porte and quickly obtained permission for many to be rebuilt . 20 But the Iberian Jews had always known how to live well , and their noble families ...
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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