Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews. Mark Mazower
SALONICA
CITY OF GHOSTS
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430–1950
MARK MAZOWER
William Collins
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Contents
PART ONE: The Rose of Sultan Murad
1 Conquest, 1430
2 Mosques and Hamams
3 The Arrival of the Sefardim
4 Messiahs, Martyrs and Miracles
5 Janissaries and Other Plagues
6 Commerce and the Greeks
7 Pashas, Beys and Money-lenders
8 Religion in the Age of Reform
PART TWO: In the Shadow of Europe
9 Travellers and the European Imagination
10 The Possibilities of a Past
11 In the Frankish Style
12 The Macedonia Question, 1878–1908
13 The Young Turk Revolution
PART THREE: Making the City Greek
14 The Return of St Dimitrios
15 The First World War
16 The Great Fire
17 The Muslim Exodus
18 City of Refugees
19 Workers and the State
20 Dressing for the Tango
21 Greeks and Jews
22 Genocide
23 Aftermath
CONCLUSION: The Memory of the Dad
The topography of the Balkans.
The first map of the Ottoman city, 1882, showing the new sea frontage.
The late Ottoman city and its surroundings, c.1910.
Area destroyed by the 1917 fire.
After the fire: the 1918 Plan.
Beware of saying to them that sometimes cities follow one another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another, without communicating among themselves. At times even the names of the inhabitants remain the same, and their voices’ accent,