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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... mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial palace fell into ruins which gradually disintegrated and slipped beneath the slowly rising topsoil , leaving an invisible sub- stratum of catacombs , crypts and secret passages . In a very ...
... mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial palace fell into ruins which gradually disintegrated and slipped beneath the slowly rising topsoil , leaving an invisible sub- stratum of catacombs , crypts and secret passages . In a very ...
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... mosque for their own use , and the devshirme child levy was imposed at intervals Turkish sol- diers carried off Christian children to be brought up as Muslims— which must have caused distress . But returning in 1393 , Archbishop ...
... mosque for their own use , and the devshirme child levy was imposed at intervals Turkish sol- diers carried off Christian children to be brought up as Muslims— which must have caused distress . But returning in 1393 , Archbishop ...
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... mosque , and ordered a laconic inscription to be chiselled into a marble column in the north colonnade of the nave ... Mosques and Hamams THE MIGHTIEST WAR CENTRES OF TRADE 31 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... mosque , and ordered a laconic inscription to be chiselled into a marble column in the north colonnade of the nave ... Mosques and Hamams THE MIGHTIEST WAR CENTRES OF TRADE 31 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. 2 Mosques and Hamams THE MIGHTIEST WAR CENTRES OF TRADE , learning , religious piety and administrative control , cities were essential for the prosperity of the ... Mosques and Hamams.
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower. 2 Mosques and Hamams THE MIGHTIEST WAR CENTRES OF TRADE , learning , religious piety and administrative control , cities were essential for the prosperity of the ... Mosques and Hamams.
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... mosques if there were not the congregations to use them : the wave of conversion thus followed the slow expansion of the Muslim population . Of the city's noblest buildings , Ayios Dimi- trios was converted into a mosque only in 1491 ...
... mosques if there were not the congregations to use them : the wave of conversion thus followed the slow expansion of the Muslim population . Of the city's noblest buildings , Ayios Dimi- trios was converted into a mosque only in 1491 ...
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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