Salonica, City of Ghosts

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  • Author: Mark Mazower
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Catalogue: 136455
  • Size: 13x20cm
Salonica City of Ghosts is Mark Mazower’s history of Christians, Muslims and Jews in Salonica (modern day Thessaloniki in Greece) between 1430 and 1950. Salonica was, for five centuries, a Mediterranean port where East met West, home to one of the most extraordinarily diverse societies in Europe.

A microcosm of world history, Salonica’s Roman ruins and Byzantine monasteries, synagogues and mosques, Jewish dock workers, Ukrainian slaves, Greek shopkeepers, Ottoman pachas and Albanian brigands were testament to a tolerant imperial world where creeds and languages mingled and clashed in an atmosphere of shared piety.