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 27
... remained uninterruptedly under Ottoman control from this point on , its subsequent history would have been very differ- ent , and the continuity with Byzantine life not so decisively broken . Having given in peacefully , Salonica was ...
... remained uninterruptedly under Ottoman control from this point on , its subsequent history would have been very differ- ent , and the continuity with Byzantine life not so decisively broken . Having given in peacefully , Salonica was ...
Page 29
... remained . Despite occasional Venetian grain convoys , food was scarce . Some defenders let them- selves down by ropes to join the Turks . Others passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the ...
... remained . Despite occasional Venetian grain convoys , food was scarce . Some defenders let them- selves down by ropes to join the Turks . Others passed messages saying they wished to surrender : the pro - Ottoman faction within the ...
Page 30
... . " Jannina obeyed and remained an important centre of Hellenic learning throughout the Ottoman period : indeed one of Murad's gen- erals actually founded a Christian monastery there . Salonica's fate 30 SALONICA , CITY O F GHOSTS.
... . " Jannina obeyed and remained an important centre of Hellenic learning throughout the Ottoman period : indeed one of Murad's gen- erals actually founded a Christian monastery there . Salonica's fate 30 SALONICA , CITY O F GHOSTS.
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... remained in Christian hands : yet even after Murad began to bring in Muslims in 1432 many ecclesiastical foundations continued to collect substantial revenues from their estates . After all , there was no point converting churches into ...
... remained in Christian hands : yet even after Murad began to bring in Muslims in 1432 many ecclesiastical foundations continued to collect substantial revenues from their estates . After all , there was no point converting churches into ...
Page 35
... remained recognizably Greco - Roman , the demands of Ottoman power and the Islamic faith were nevertheless changing Salon- ica's physiognomy.8 An imperial decree of 14 December 1479 appointing a teacher to a city medrese informs us ...
... remained recognizably Greco - Roman , the demands of Ottoman power and the Islamic faith were nevertheless changing Salon- ica's physiognomy.8 An imperial decree of 14 December 1479 appointing a teacher to a city medrese informs us ...
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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