num_pages: 544
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.
language: English
title: Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
titlecomplete: Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
genres: Jewish, Greece, Religion, Historical, Islam, European History, Travel, Cities, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1319
places: Thessaloniki
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Duff Cooper Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: John D. Criticos Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hessell-Tiltman Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Runciman Book Prize
publisher: Vintage