Salonica, city of ghosts : Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950. / Mark Mazower.

pt. 1. The rose of Sultan Murad
Conquest, 1430
Mosques and Hamams
The arrival of the Sefardim
Messiahs, martyrs, and miracles
Janissaries and other plagues
Commerce and the Greeks
Pashas, beys, and money-lenders
Religion in the age of reform
pt. 2. In the shadow of Europe
Travellers and the European imagination
The possibilities of a past
In the Frankish style
The Macedonia question, 1878-1908
The young Turk revolution
pt. 3. Making the city Greek
The return of Saint Dimitrios
The First World War
The great fire
The Muslim exodus
City of refugees
Workers and the state
Dressing for the tango
Greeks and Jews
Genocide
Aftermath
Conclusion: the memory of the dead

"Salonica, City of Ghosts is an evocation of the life of a vanished city and an exploration of how it passed away. Under the rule of the Ottoman sultans, one of the most extraordinary and diverse societies in Europe lived for five centuries amid its minarets and cypresses on the shore of the Aegean, alongside its Roman ruins and Byzantine monasteries. Egyptian merchants and Ukrainian slaves, Spanish-speaking rabbis - refugees from the Iberian Inquisition - and Turkish pashas rubbed shoulders with Orthodox shopkeepers, Sufi dervishes and Albanian brigands. Creeds clashed and mingled in an atmosphere of shared piety and messianic mysticism. How this bustling, cosmopolitan and tolerant world emerged and then disappeared under the pressure of modern nationalism is the subject of this book."