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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

By Mark Mazower

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2006
ISBN
0375727388, 9780375727382
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
13 MB (14063021 bytes)
Pages
544\0
Time added
2013-12-27 12:26:29

Description

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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