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 20
... once happily told me . “ There is excellent shooting in the neighbourhood , " noted John Murray's Hand- book in 1854 , " including pheasants , woodcocks , wildfowl etc. " Cutting wide loops through the fields the Vardar river to the ...
... once happily told me . “ There is excellent shooting in the neighbourhood , " noted John Murray's Hand- book in 1854 , " including pheasants , woodcocks , wildfowl etc. " Cutting wide loops through the fields the Vardar river to the ...
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... once connected the triumphal arch with an enormous palace and hippodrome . Meanwhile , in what is still the commercial heart of the city , archaeologists have uncovered a vast forum , a tribute to Greco - Roman consumerism , with a ...
... once connected the triumphal arch with an enormous palace and hippodrome . Meanwhile , in what is still the commercial heart of the city , archaeologists have uncovered a vast forum , a tribute to Greco - Roman consumerism , with a ...
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... once . Pala- mas himself observed an imam conducting a funeral and later took the opportunity to joust over theology with him . When the discussion . threatened to overheat , Palamas calmed it down by saying politely : " Had we been ...
... once . Pala- mas himself observed an imam conducting a funeral and later took the opportunity to joust over theology with him . When the discussion . threatened to overheat , Palamas calmed it down by saying politely : " Had we been ...
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... once sheltered refugees and beggars , though it is now abandoned and covered with graffiti . The multi - coloured minaret , ornamented with stones in a diamond pattern , which gave the whole building its name ( Aladja = coloured ) has ...
... once sheltered refugees and beggars , though it is now abandoned and covered with graffiti . The multi - coloured minaret , ornamented with stones in a diamond pattern , which gave the whole building its name ( Aladja = coloured ) has ...
Page 50
... once more , not even when the destination was the Land their holy books promised them . For this home was not only their " Jerusalem " ; it was also a simulacrum of the life they had known at the other end of the Mediterranean . They 50 ...
... once more , not even when the destination was the Land their holy books promised them . For this home was not only their " Jerusalem " ; it was also a simulacrum of the life they had known at the other end of the Mediterranean . They 50 ...
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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