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 19
... ports that would link the Greek world with the trading routes to Asia , India and Africa . As events would prove , Cassander chose his spot well . Built on the slope running down to the sea from the hills in the shadow of Mount ...
... ports that would link the Greek world with the trading routes to Asia , India and Africa . As events would prove , Cassander chose his spot well . Built on the slope running down to the sea from the hills in the shadow of Mount ...
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... port , but belonged to him by right since it had already submitted to Ottoman rule . After 1422 his troops besieged it , and with the hinterland also under his con- trol , there was little the Byzantine emperors could do . The empire ...
... port , but belonged to him by right since it had already submitted to Ottoman rule . After 1422 his troops besieged it , and with the hinterland also under his con- trol , there was little the Byzantine emperors could do . The empire ...
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... port and boarded the waiting galleys . Behind them the victorious Turks— “ shouting and thirsting for our blood " according to the survivor Ioannis Anagnos- tes ransacked churches , homes and public buildings , looking for hid- den ...
... port and boarded the waiting galleys . Behind them the victorious Turks— “ shouting and thirsting for our blood " according to the survivor Ioannis Anagnos- tes ransacked churches , homes and public buildings , looking for hid- den ...
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... port , many were bound to make their way there in any case . As wave after wave of Iberian refugees arrived at the ... ports of the eastern Mediterranean.8 Perhaps only now did the real break with Byzantium take place . In 1478 Salonica ...
... port , many were bound to make their way there in any case . As wave after wave of Iberian refugees arrived at the ... ports of the eastern Mediterranean.8 Perhaps only now did the real break with Byzantium take place . In 1478 Salonica ...
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... port was at first equally strange and alienating . Lost “ in a country which is not theirs , " they struggled to make sense of forced migration from " the lands of the West . " Some were Jews ; others were converts to Catholicism . With ...
... port was at first equally strange and alienating . Lost “ in a country which is not theirs , " they struggled to make sense of forced migration from " the lands of the West . " Some were Jews ; others were converts to Catholicism . With ...
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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