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

Name: Salonica, City of Ghosts Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
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ISBN: 9780375727382

ISBN-10: 0375727388

ISBN-13: 9780375727382

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mark Mazower

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Salonica, City of Ghosts is an evocation of the life of a vanished city and an exploration of how it passed away. Under the rule of the Ottoman sultans, one of the most extraordinary and diverse societies in Europe lived for five centuries amid its minarets and cypresses on the shore of the Aegean, alongside its Roman ruins and Byzantine monasteries. Egyptian merchants and Ukrainian slaves, Spanish-speaking rabbis–refugees from the Iberian Inquisition–and Turkish pashas rubbed shoulders with Orthodox shopkeepers, Sufi dervishes and Albanian brigands. Creeds clashed and mingled in an atmosphere of shared piety and messianic mysticism. How this bustling, cosmopolitan and tolerant world…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.97" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Mark Mazower is a professor of history at Princeton University and has recently been appointed professor of history at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of several books, most recently Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century.