August Books 12) Salonica: City of Ghosts

[nwhyte]

12) Salonica: City of Ghosts - Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower

This book was recommended to me last time I was in the city, and subsequently by frumiousb (saare_snowqueen, not so much use for you as it starts some time after the 11th century). It is very good - an excellent story of the city through waves of depopulation and resettlement: the

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[rfmcdpei]

I rather liked this book, too. It's funny how fragile Salonika turned out to be, isn't it?

[saare_snowqueen]

I hadn't seen that book and will look for it the next time I am in London. Certainly the 'modern' Greek goverment's propensity for managing their histories is frustrating - if not reprehensible, but I would hesitate to call Salonika fragile. The last time I was there in 2002, it was doing very well - on its own terms allbeit. In others words slooging along much as it always had

[rfmcdpei]

I quite agree that Thessaloniki is doing marvellously of late, but old Salonika seems to be quite dead.