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 34
... population . Of the city's noblest buildings , Ayios Dimi- trios was converted into a mosque only in 1491 , Ayia Sofia and the Rotonda a century later.5 The real problem for the Christian survivors was not so much the expropriation of ...
... population . Of the city's noblest buildings , Ayios Dimi- trios was converted into a mosque only in 1491 , Ayia Sofia and the Rotonda a century later.5 The real problem for the Christian survivors was not so much the expropriation of ...
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... population within a few years . The first extant Ottoman records , from 1478 , show that unlike the Christian popula- tion , who were almost entirely descended from pre - conquest families , the Muslims were new arrivals . They were ...
... population within a few years . The first extant Ottoman records , from 1478 , show that unlike the Christian popula- tion , who were almost entirely descended from pre - conquest families , the Muslims were new arrivals . They were ...
Page 36
... population between the mid - fifteenth century and 1530. At the time of the first census of modern times - in 1831 - Salonica had the smallest Muslim population of any major Ottoman city . Yet to out- siders , its Islamic character was ...
... population between the mid - fifteenth century and 1530. At the time of the first census of modern times - in 1831 - Salonica had the smallest Muslim population of any major Ottoman city . Yet to out- siders , its Islamic character was ...
Page 44
... population had grown to more than one hundred thousand , the quasi - rural character of Salonica's upper reaches was still visible : Ottoman photographs show isolated buildings surrounded by fields within the walls — the Muslim ...
... population had grown to more than one hundred thousand , the quasi - rural character of Salonica's upper reaches was still visible : Ottoman photographs show isolated buildings surrounded by fields within the walls — the Muslim ...
Page 45
... population suddenly doubled , and soared to thirty thousand by 1520 , putting pressure on housing for the first time , and necessitating the opening up of a new water supply into the city . The newcomers emanated from an unexpected ...
... population suddenly doubled , and soared to thirty thousand by 1520 , putting pressure on housing for the first time , and necessitating the opening up of a new water supply into the city . The newcomers emanated from an unexpected ...
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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