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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... religious leader for each 166 Muslims , compared with an average of one priest to every 667 Christians . Islam ... religion , to resolve the 35 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... religious leader for each 166 Muslims , compared with an average of one priest to every 667 Christians . Islam ... religion , to resolve the 35 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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... religion , to resolve the difficulties of the branches of religious law , the subtleties of the tradition and the truths of the exegesis of the Quran . " He was not only to give lessons to stu- dents , but also to look after their ...
... religion , to resolve the difficulties of the branches of religious law , the subtleties of the tradition and the truths of the exegesis of the Quran . " He was not only to give lessons to stu- dents , but also to look after their ...
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... religious school , students and teachers took their lessons in rooms arranged around an open - air courtyard . The Seljuk Turks adapted this model for the harsher conditions of central Anatolia by covering the courtyard with a dome ...
... religious school , students and teachers took their lessons in rooms arranged around an open - air courtyard . The Seljuk Turks adapted this model for the harsher conditions of central Anatolia by covering the courtyard with a dome ...
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... religious study so that people could fulfil their obligation to make sure they were clean before entering the mosque to pray . Murad II built the sprawling Bey hamam as a place to prepare for the city's main mosque , only a stone's ...
... religious study so that people could fulfil their obligation to make sure they were clean before entering the mosque to pray . Murad II built the sprawling Bey hamam as a place to prepare for the city's main mosque , only a stone's ...
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... religion , each one being made welcome , without being obliged to pay anything in return . " As the key naval , mercantile and military strong - point for the sultans ' fifteenth- century advance westwards , Salonica benefited from the ...
... religion , each one being made welcome , without being obliged to pay anything in return . " As the key naval , mercantile and military strong - point for the sultans ' fifteenth- century advance westwards , Salonica benefited from the ...
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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