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 24
... turned the porous boundaries between Slav and Greek into rigidly patrolled national cages. Moreover, the city did ... turning it into a treasure-house of late Byzantine art. .\~Ionasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and ...
... turned the porous boundaries between Slav and Greek into rigidly patrolled national cages. Moreover, the city did ... turning it into a treasure-house of late Byzantine art. .\~Ionasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria, and ...
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... turned into mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial palace fell into ruins which gradually disintegrated and slipped beneath the slowly rising topsoil , leaving an invisible sub- stratum of catacombs , crypts and secret passages ...
... turned into mosques . The Hippodrome , forum and imperial palace fell into ruins which gradually disintegrated and slipped beneath the slowly rising topsoil , leaving an invisible sub- stratum of catacombs , crypts and secret passages ...
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... turning them into catastrophes . A bad year can also bring heavy falls of snow , even the occasional ice in the Gulf : freezing temperatures in February 1770 left “ many poor lying in the streets dead of cold " ; in the 1960s , snow ...
... turning them into catastrophes . A bad year can also bring heavy falls of snow , even the occasional ice in the Gulf : freezing temperatures in February 1770 left “ many poor lying in the streets dead of cold " ; in the 1960s , snow ...
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... turned itself into a new religion : the Rotonda had been converted from pagan use , and chapels , shrines and Christian graveyards were spread- ing with astonishing speed across the city . The figure who came to symbolize Christ's ...
... turned itself into a new religion : the Rotonda had been converted from pagan use , and chapels , shrines and Christian graveyards were spread- ing with astonishing speed across the city . The figure who came to symbolize Christ's ...
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... turned the porous boundaries between Slav and Greek into rigidly patrolled national cages . Moreover , the city did ... turning it into a treasure - house of late Byzantine art . Monasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria ...
... turned the porous boundaries between Slav and Greek into rigidly patrolled national cages . Moreover , the city did ... turning it into a treasure - house of late Byzantine art . Monasticism spread to the Balkans from Egypt and Syria ...
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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