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 19
... streets dead of cold " ; in the 1960s , snow- drifts blocked all traffic between the Upper Town and the streets below . Yet the city also enjoys Mediterranean summers with relatively little wind , little rain and high daytime ...
... streets dead of cold " ; in the 1960s , snow- drifts blocked all traffic between the Upper Town and the streets below . Yet the city also enjoys Mediterranean summers with relatively little wind , little rain and high daytime ...
Page 31
... streets and buildings lay empty . 16 In the Acheiropoietos church the sultan held a victory thanks- giving service . Then he had the building turned into a mosque , and ordered a laconic inscription to be chiselled into a marble column ...
... streets and buildings lay empty . 16 In the Acheiropoietos church the sultan held a victory thanks- giving service . Then he had the building turned into a mosque , and ordered a laconic inscription to be chiselled into a marble column ...
Page 34
... streets of the capital , Edirne , where they were brought to be sold off , or entered the imperial service . + Yet the Sultan certainly did not intend to wipe out Christianity from the city . It was not only that this would have been ...
... streets of the capital , Edirne , where they were brought to be sold off , or entered the imperial service . + Yet the Sultan certainly did not intend to wipe out Christianity from the city . It was not only that this would have been ...
Page 37
... streets , small shops , a disused cinema , and tourist boutiques still cling to the sides of an elegantly domed ... Street . The Aladja complex served as school , prayer - hall and soup - kitchen for the poor and illustrates the way ...
... streets , small shops , a disused cinema , and tourist boutiques still cling to the sides of an elegantly domed ... Street . The Aladja complex served as school , prayer - hall and soup - kitchen for the poor and illustrates the way ...
Page 44
... streets downtown , a fountain in almost every one , many columns visible along them , some ruined and some whole " -was that the city was " sparsely inhabited . " 23 Yet not nearly as sparsely in the 1590s as it had been a century ear ...
... streets downtown , a fountain in almost every one , many columns visible along them , some ruined and some whole " -was that the city was " sparsely inhabited . " 23 Yet not nearly as sparsely in the 1590s as it had been a century ear ...
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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