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 29
... took up a position on high ground which overlooked the citadel , and sent a last group of Christian messengers to urge surrender . These got no more favourable a response than before . Prompted by the sight of a Venetian vessel sail ...
... took up a position on high ground which overlooked the citadel , and sent a last group of Christian messengers to urge surrender . These got no more favourable a response than before . Prompted by the sight of a Venetian vessel sail ...
Page 31
... good enough , you can still make out in the elegant Ara- bic script : " Sultan Murad Khan took Thessaloniki in the year 833 [ = 1430 ] . " 2 Mosques and Hamams THE MIGHTIEST WAR CENTRES OF TRADE 31 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
... good enough , you can still make out in the elegant Ara- bic script : " Sultan Murad Khan took Thessaloniki in the year 833 [ = 1430 ] . " 2 Mosques and Hamams THE MIGHTIEST WAR CENTRES OF TRADE 31 The Rose of Sultan Murad.
Page 33
... took pris- oner some of their sons , and took their property . " 2 Murad's initial thought was " to return the city to its inhabitants and to restore it just as it had been before . " Anagnostes tells us that he would have even ...
... took pris- oner some of their sons , and took their property . " 2 Murad's initial thought was " to return the city to its inhabitants and to restore it just as it had been before . " Anagnostes tells us that he would have even ...
Page 37
... 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 , often adding a small prayer room at the ...
... 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 , often adding a small prayer room at the ...
Page 45
... took shape in Salonica . By the time the Venetian ambassador passed through , it was a Jewish guide who showed him round , and the Jews of the city were many times more numerous than in Venice itself . Of the three main religious ...
... took shape in Salonica . By the time the Venetian ambassador passed through , it was a Jewish guide who showed him round , and the Jews of the city were many times more numerous than in Venice itself . Of the three main religious ...
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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