Salonica, city of ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950

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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.;pt. 1. The rose of Sultan Murad -- Conquest, 1430 -- Mosques and Hamams -- The arrival of the Sefardim -- Messiahs, martyrs, and miracles -- Janissaries and other plagues -- Commerce and the Greeks -- Pashas, beys, and money-lenders -- Religion in the age of reform -- pt. 2. In the shadow of Europe -- Travellers and the European imagination -- The possibilities of a past -- In the Frankish style -- The Macedonia question, 1878-1908 -- The young Turk revolution -- pt. 3. Making the city Greek -- The return of Saint Dimitrios -- The First World War -- The great fire -- The Muslim exodus -- City of refugees -- Workers and the state -- Dressing for the tango -- Greeks and Jews -- Genocide -- Aftermath -- Conclusion: the memory of the dead.