Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 (87 page)

First meeting of the town planners, 1917.
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Wartime excavations: Ernest Hebrard leads a dig in the precinct of the Rotonda.
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The new city: A straightened and widened Egnatia runs alongside the Arch of Galerius.
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Huts of Asia Minor refugees beneath the old walls,
c
.1960.
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Last remnants of the Ottoman city: the Upper Town,
c
.1960.
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Rosa Eskenazi, Dimitrios Semsis (violin) and Tomboul (bouzouki),
c
.1930.
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An interwar dandy.
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The Hamza Bey mosque, in its postwar incarnation as the Alcazar Cinema,
c
.1960.
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The round-up of Jewish men by German troops, July 1942.
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University buildings going up on the site of the old Jewish cemetery, 1950s.
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The city expands: the Ottoman city is still divided from the new suburbs along the coast by cemeteries and open ground,
c
.1910. The new Idadié building is visible in the middle distance.
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The city expands: The same view half a century later: the campus and International Fair grounds flank the Idadié. Arterial roads link the old city with the suburbs. The minarets and cypresses have vanished from the centre; high-rise construction dominates.
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The Cold War nation-state triumphant: during 1962 parades marking a half-century of Greek rule, school-children hold up a globe, flanked by personifications of ancient and modern Greece (
left
) and (
right
) military vehicles pass down Egnatia.
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