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Salonica, City of Ghosts
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.