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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... smelling rose to sniff . When Murad asked if he could keep it , God told him that the rose was Salonica and that he had decreed it should be his . In fact Murad had set his heart on the city 28 SALONICA , GHOSTS CITY OF.
... smelling rose to sniff . When Murad asked if he could keep it , God told him that the rose was Salonica and that he had decreed it should be his . In fact Murad had set his heart on the city 28 SALONICA , GHOSTS CITY OF.
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... told them , " as an acropolis and guardian of the surrounding countryside . " But the Turks were out- side the walls , and the villages and towns beyond were in their hands . Their mastery of the hinterland had turned the fortified city ...
... told them , " as an acropolis and guardian of the surrounding countryside . " But the Turks were out- side the walls , and the villages and towns beyond were in their hands . Their mastery of the hinterland had turned the fortified city ...
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... told his troops , " I want to have the city itself and for this I made many days ' march and tired myself , as you know . " He began by repairing the damaged walls and ordered the new garrison commander to modernize the fortress . Less ...
... told his troops , " I want to have the city itself and for this I made many days ' march and tired myself , as you know . " He began by repairing the damaged walls and ordered the new garrison commander to modernize the fortress . Less ...
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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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