Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 (88 page)
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Authors: Mark Mazower
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Greece, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural
The planned city centre: the new street grid carves channels between post-war apartment blocks, leading down into Plateia Aristotelous and the seafront road.
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Saint Dimitrios and his city. A sixteenth century icon.
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The Greco-Roman-Christian synthesis: Saint Dimitrios flanked by the bishop and the prefect, the patrons of his church, seventh century mosaics, Church of Ayios Dimitrios.
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The Slavic threat: Byzantine forces drive a Bulgarian army away from the city, miniature from the chronicle of Ioannis Skylitzes, eleventh–twelfth century
AD
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Ottoman officials supervise the forced levy of Christian children from a Balkan town. In the foreground the children wait to be registered and to receive a stipend. Relatives and a priest watch from behind a wall. Sixteenth century Ottoman miniature.
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Sultan Murad II (
c.
1403–1451) the conqueror of Salonica, and father of Mehmed II, who finally captured Constantinople two years after Murad’s death. Sixteenth century Ottoman miniature.
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A Jewish merchant and doctor in Ottoman dress. Istanbul, 1574.
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Visitors arrive at the home of a Jewish merchant to examine Las Incantadas. Their host offers coffee to the British consul watched by his wife and daughters from the balcony. In the background are James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, British antiquarians, the consul’s son (the only one in European dress) and the consul’s Greek interpreter. Sketched in 1754, this picture is the first life drawing of the city to survive. The statues themselves were carted off to the Louvre a century later.
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The Arch of Galerius at the end of the main street as drawn by Edward Lear, 1848.
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Jewish singers and musicians, late nineteenth century.
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Jewish marriage contract, 1790.
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Jewish wet-nurse and Bulgarian peasant bride,
c.
1860.
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