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 12
... walls climb- ing high above the Aegean . From the late nineteenth century - though no earlier there are newspapers , more and more of them , in half a dozen languages , and even that rarity in the Ottoman lands — maps . As for the ...
... walls climb- ing high above the Aegean . From the late nineteenth century - though no earlier there are newspapers , more and more of them , in half a dozen languages , and even that rarity in the Ottoman lands — maps . As for the ...
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... walls.4 From earliest times , too , fresh water has been channelled through fountains , aqueducts and underground pipes , attracting the rich and the holy , plane trees , acacias and monasteries , wherever it bubbles to the surface ...
... walls.4 From earliest times , too , fresh water has been channelled through fountains , aqueducts and underground pipes , attracting the rich and the holy , plane trees , acacias and monasteries , wherever it bubbles to the surface ...
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... walls , by its fortress perched commandingly above the bay and even by the spit of land which guarded the entrance ... walls of Salonica for the first time , and a huge army gathered on the plains outside the walls . Only Saint Dimitrios ...
... walls , by its fortress perched commandingly above the bay and even by the spit of land which guarded the entrance ... walls of Salonica for the first time , and a huge army gathered on the plains outside the walls . Only Saint Dimitrios ...
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... walls was as powerful as it had ever been , its numbers swelled by Murad's prom- ises of good treatment if the city gave in . To the aged Archbishop Symeon , the defeatism of his flock came as a shock . " They actually declared they ...
... walls was as powerful as it had ever been , its numbers swelled by Murad's prom- ises of good treatment if the city gave in . To the aged Archbishop Symeon , the defeatism of his flock came as a shock . " They actually declared they ...
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... walls " like wild animals . ” Within a few hours , one had scaled the blind side of the Trigonion tower , cut off the head of a wounded Venetian soldier and tossed it down . His fel- low ghazis quickly followed him up and threw open the ...
... walls " like wild animals . ” Within a few hours , one had scaled the blind side of the Trigonion tower , cut off the head of a wounded Venetian soldier and tossed it down . His fel- low ghazis quickly followed him up and threw open the ...
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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