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 15
... Sultan Murad I Conquest , 1430 BEGINNINGS BEFORE THE CITY FELL IN PART I/ The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... Sultan Murad I Conquest , 1430 BEGINNINGS BEFORE THE CITY FELL IN PART I/ The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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... ( Rum millet ) they meant Orthodox Christians , not necessarily Greeks ; Rum was Byzantine Ana- tolia ; Rumeli the Orthodox Christian Balkans . Until the age of ethnic nationalism , to be " Greek " was , for 2 I The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... ( Rum millet ) they meant Orthodox Christians , not necessarily Greeks ; Rum was Byzantine Ana- tolia ; Rumeli the Orthodox Christian Balkans . Until the age of ethnic nationalism , to be " Greek " was , for 2 I The Rose of Sultan Murad.
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... Sultan . Thanks to the distortive effects of both sixteenth - century Ottoman ideology ( when the empire's rulers were keen to demonstrate the purity of their Sunni credentials , following the conquest of the Arab provinces ) and ...
... Sultan . Thanks to the distortive effects of both sixteenth - century Ottoman ideology ( when the empire's rulers were keen to demonstrate the purity of their Sunni credentials , following the conquest of the Arab provinces ) and ...
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... Sultan . " 12 In the second half of the fourteenth century , one Balkan town after another yielded to the fast ... Sultan to intervene in ecclesiastical disputes , bishops relied on the Turks to con- firm them in office , and one " said ...
... Sultan . " 12 In the second half of the fourteenth century , one Balkan town after another yielded to the fast ... Sultan to intervene in ecclesiastical disputes , bishops relied on the Turks to con- firm them in office , and one " said ...
Page 28
... Sultan Bayazid died in captivity and his defeat led directly to a vicious Ottoman civil war which lasted nearly twenty years . Exploiting the dynasty's moment of weakness , Manuel got one of the claimants , Suleyman , to marry his ...
... Sultan Bayazid died in captivity and his defeat led directly to a vicious Ottoman civil war which lasted nearly twenty years . Exploiting the dynasty's moment of weakness , Manuel got one of the claimants , Suleyman , to marry his ...
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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