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	SALONICA - LoveToKnow Article on SALONICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Solun); the capital of the Turkish vilayet of Salonica, in western Macedonia, and one of the principal seaports of south-western Europe.
		Salonica exports grain, flour, bran, silk cocoons, chrome, manganese, iron, hides and skins, cattle and sheep, wool, eggs, opium, tobacco and fennel.
		During the early years of the 20th century Salonica was the headquarters of the Committee of Union and Progress, the central organization of the Young Turkey Party, which carried out the constitutional revolution of 1908.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SALONICA.htm (2981 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SALONICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This liberality was due either to the fact that the Jews of Salonica were unable to pay their taxes at that time, or to an ulterior motive on the part of the emperor, who, fearing that the Jews would sympathize with the Crusaders, endeavored thus to secure their loyalty.
		The happy condition of the Jewish community of Salonica at that time is described by Isaac Ẓarfati in a letter addressed to the Jews of Germany, whom he advises to emigrate to Turkey.
		The aim of the first two is to furnish medical assistance and medicine to the poor; of the third, to provide dowries for orphaned girls; and of the last two to render pecuniary aid to families impoverished by illness, death, or the like.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=93&letter=S (1517 words)

	G. Ward Price. The Story of the Salonica Army. 1918. Chapters III-VI.
		The next sector westwards of the Salonica lines was a very important one because into it runs the Seres road, which comes down from the Struma valley and was the most convenient route for the enemy to use for his siege artillery and transport.
		Salonica as his "biggest internment camp," the enemy tried to perturb us and perhaps raise trouble through arousing the fears of the civilian population by carrying out night air-raids on our base at Salonica.
		The Salonica Club, which was only saved for a time by being kept practically under water by the converging hydrants of the Fleet from the opposite side of the Quay, was the last building to succumb.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/Salonica/salon2.htm (12175 words)

	Salonica: City of Ghosts, by
		Ottoman Salonica is the ghost behind the modern city of Thessaloniki in Mark Mazower’s history, which is subtitled Christians, Muslims and Jews 14301950, although it also covers briefly the city’s Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine antiquity.
		The influential community of dönme (for whom Mazower uses the obsolete Salonica name of Ma’min), descendants of Jewish converts to Islam, were lucky to have been included as Muslims in the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey agreed at Lausanne in 1923.
		It was because the Greek navy prevented the despatch of reinforcements from Smyrna that Salonica fell to the Greeks in 1912.
	www.cornucopia.net /aboutscg.html (995 words)

	G. Ward Price. The Story of the Salonica Army. 1918. Chapters I & II.
		Salonica, though neutral territory, was available as a base because Greece was united to Serbia by a treaty of alliance: Venizelos mobilised the Greek Army to co-operate, but King Constantine unconstitutionally drove him from power when the Allies had already begun to land.
		It must be remembered that Salonica, more than any other part of the war, is a joint undertaking of the Allies, and amid all the difficulties which attend a coalition the British General Staff has always taken a line that is coldly practical, uninfluenced by illusion, however attractive.
		General Sarrail left on October 7th for Salonica, where he arrived on October 12th, but the haste with which this expedition for the rescue of Serbia had necessarily been organised was evident from the first.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/Salonica/salon1.htm (9447 words)

	ez-online-shopping - Online Shopping,Best Buy Cheap Books Store : Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Salonica, City of Ghosts is an evocation of the life of a vanished city and an exploration of how it passed away.
		Salonica (or Thessaloniki as it is known today) is located at one of the crossroads of the world.
		Thessalonika, or "Salonica," in this book, is the second city of Greece and-as in Athens, the capital-there has been a self-conscious attempt to bring the classical and Byzantine past to the forefront.
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	Thessaloniki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thessaloníki or Salonica (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη) is the second-largest city of Greece and is the principal, the largest city, and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia.
		The metropolitan area has a total population of around 1,000,000, and lies in a bay of the Thermaic Gulf at the head of the Khalkidhikí peninsula.
		Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower, ISBN 0375412980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salonica (2411 words)

	Notherby's :: Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
		The story of Salonica is an illustration of the ways in which a single physical place has seen whole communities come and go, typically under tragic circumstances.
		Salonica became a center of Mevlevis, who followed the ideals of the Muslim teacher Haci Bektasi, and were "always to be found in the company of Greek monks." In fact, among the Albanians who followed the faith, there was the legend that Haci Bektasi had invented Bektashism as a bridge between Christianity and Islam.
		Salonica had been one of the great centers of Jewish culture, Alfred Rosenberg reminded Martin Bormann in a letter; so the Nazis gave the city special attention.
	www.northerbys.com /store/0375412980/Salonica__City_of_Ghosts__Christians__Muslims_and_Jews__1430_1950.html (1858 words)

	D/S Salonica - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
		Salonica was in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in June-1940 when the decision was made in Norway to send as many Norwegian ships as possible to Gt.
		Salonica eventually lost touch with the convoy due to dense fog - follow the link for more details (note that she's not included in the table of ships, but in the "notes" further down on the page).
		When a ship on Salonica's port side was torpedoed (this may have been the Dutch Ootmarsum?) all men, except 3 on duty in the engine room were called out and ordered to put their lifejackets on while full speed was ordered to the engine room.
	www.warsailors.com /singleships/salonica.html (622 words)

	Greece in 2003 (2: Salonica)
		Salonica or Thessaloniki as the Greeks call it, the second-largest city of Greece, once was the second-largest city of Byzantium.
		Salonica was occupied by the Ottoman Turks from 1430 to 1912.
		The Rotunda, built to be the mausoleum of Galerius in 305, was converted into a church dedicated to St George in the mid-fifth century and was used later as a mosque by the Turks who added the minaret that is presently being repaired.
	berclo.net /page03/03en-greece-2.html (486 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Islam's lost grandeur
		What he does to perfection is to express the historical meaning of Salonica down the generations, authenticating his story with a multitude of contemporary quotations, from the 15th to the 20th century, and scrupulously explaining it all out of his profound scholarly knowledge.
		Even in 1911, it seems, the several ethnicities of Salonica, so long restrained into tolerance, had learnt to call themselves "nations"; and it was the burgeoning idea of nationality that inflamed the tragic Balkan wars of the 1900s, eventually destroying the Ottoman regime and bringing disaster to Salonica itself.
		In 1920 an American observer wrote that the Salonica scene reminded him of a "soap opera" (surely a very early printed use of the phrase) and although the analogy seems too frivolous now, the history of this city does still seem like one long theatrical fiction.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1306160,00.html (940 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Last Days of Jewish Salonica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		THE fate of the Jews of Salonica at the hands of the Nazis is an episode of recent history that for some reason or other has been relatively overlooked.
		...But Salonica was still the greatest center of Sephardic Jewry, with its synagogues and academies, its rabbis and its teachers, its newspapers and its printing presses, and some scholars of distinction among the sixty rabbis and communal functionaries...
		...It is to be reported, with the most profound regret, that the general population of Salonica did not show that degree of practical sympathy with their harried fellow townsfolk which was encountered in some other cities, and many did not shun a profit from the Jewish distress...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V10I1P55-1.htm (4310 words)

	AllRefer.com - Salonica campaigns (Wars And Battles) - Encyclopedia
		An Allied expeditionary force that landed at Salonica in an effort to aid Serbia attempted to join forces with the Serbians but was thwarted by the Bulgarian victory at Babuna pass.
		The Allies retreated to the vicinity of Salonica.
		The Allies fostered the establishment at Salonica of a rival Greek government, under Venizelos, which declared war on the Central Powers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Salncamp.html (293 words)

	Interview with a Young Jew From Salonica
		When questioned about food conditions in Salonica previous to her departure, our informant reported that for about a year there had been no lack of food in Salonica if one had the money to pay for it.
		Though the young woman left Salonica less than a month ago, she herself showed no sign of starvation, but she explained that since the birth of her child nine months before she had received special food from the International Red Cross.
		The departure of the young Jewess from Salonica was arranged by the Turkish consul.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/greece1083.html (1339 words)

	Farewell to Salonica by Leon Sciaky - In stock and Ready to Go. Free Shipping. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		.The Salonica one reads about is not only a fascinating and complex city in which many national and cultural strains run side by side, but it is a critical city of Aegean politics The breakdown of the Turkish Empire and its consequences for Balkan affairs are better understood when one has read this book.
		His earliest recollection is of the living room of his home in the colorful city, one side of which was proudly furnished with articles imported from England and France, while the other side, where the family instinctively gathered, was a luxurious mass of oriental couches, footstools, and hangings.
		Set at the confluence of peoples of different languages, religions, cultures, and national allegiances, Salonica was like a vividly set stage in a drama where these very diverse peoples lived, in peace and strife, vying for power and prosperity.
	www.pauldrybooks.com /complete_catalog/farewell_to_salonica (903 words)

	The Mainland Of Greece - Salonica - Greece Travel
		The city of Salonica lies on a fine bay, and presents an attractive appearance from the harbor, rising up the hill in the form of an amphitheater.
		On all sides, except the sea, ancient walls surround it, fortified at the angles by large, round towers and crowned in the center, on the hill, by a respectable citadel.
		In modern Salonica there is not much respect for pagan antiquities, and one sees only the usual fragments of columns and sculptures worked into walls or incorporated in Christian churches.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles13/travel-267.shtml (667 words)

	Imperial Airways: Airmail via Salonica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Due to the difficulty of flying between Skoplje and Salonica, the route was changed after two flights so that, for the flight leaving London on 16 November, the mail was carried from Cologne to Athens by rail.
		The example cover was flown on the first flight from Salonica to Alexandria and then taken to Cairo by train.
		The northerly route via Salonica was replaced in May 1931 by the Athens - Corfu - Naples - Genoa route flown by the new Short Kent class flying boats.
	www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk /air/external/eastern/salonica.html (340 words)

	A New Video - Ottoman Salonica 1430 - 1912
		Ottoman Salonica, 1430 -1912 is a 25-minute documentary which relates the history of the ancient Macedonian city of Salonica, and the rich culture of the Sephardic Jewish community that flourished there for nearly five centuries under Ottoman rule.
		Ottoman Salonica vividly recreates the distinctive character of Salonica, when the Spanish Jews dominated both the city's commerce and cultural activity.
		The history of Sephardic life in Salonica until the Balkan Wars of 1912 and the fall of European Turkey, is recreated by use of historic etchings, maps and more than 250 rare archival photographs from turn-of-the-century postcards and family albums.
	www.sephardicstudies.org /ottoman_salonica.html (262 words)

	Jews in Salonica
		All the property of the Jewish community of Salonica is managed by the Bank of Salonica, formerly a Jewish bank but taken over by the Germans since 1941, and now subordinate to the Reichsbank.
		Nevertheless, a few peasants and a priest managed to reach Salonica and reported that important Bulgarian forces were advancing toward Salonica.
		Such an attack might come either from Greek and Yugoslav patriots or from the Allies, in the event of their landing south of the city and advancing on it from the rear.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/greece107942.html (448 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Part travelogue, part history and part cultural study, this is a splendid tour of the fortunes and misfortunes of this Balkan city.
		By the end of the 15th century, Salonica had a large influx of Jews who had fled persecution in Spain.
		The city of Thessaloniki, or Salonica, is a port city in northern Greece that apparently emerged as a polity under the reign of Phillip of Macadon in the fourth century B.C.E. In the Hellenistic and Roman eras, the city became a vibrant, cosmopolitan commercial center sitting astride the trade routes to Africa and Asia.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375412980?v=glance (2467 words)

	Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower
		.What [Mazower] does to perfection is to express the historical meaning of Salonica down the generations, authenticating his story with a multitude of contemporary quotations, from the 15th to the 20th century, and scrupulously explaining it all out of his profound scholarly knowledge.
		In a brilliant chapter on popular culture in the interwar years, Mazower shows how the development of a modern urban culture -- in dance, music, art, literature and, most importantly, sex -- began to turn a city of exiles and refugees into a place that could be called home.
		"Salonica, City of Ghosts, is a wonderful evocation of the complex, glorious and tragic history of a city, with lessons both positive and negative for our present age.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375412980 (789 words)

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	2001 Fourth Antiracist Festival in Salonica
		On the 29th and 30th of September, 2001, RAINBOW participated in the "Fourth Antiracist Festival" held in Salonica.
		The event was organized by the non-governmental organization known as the "Antiracist Initiative of Salonica." The festival took place on the grounds of the department of philosophy at the University of Salonica.
		Within the framework of these discussions RAINBOW put forward the point that respecting the rights of national minorities in Greece is the key to the further democratization of Greek society.
	www.florina.org /html/2001/2001_anti_racism_salonica.html (178 words)

	Salonica Terminus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Today, lined with bank headquarters, on one side, fast-food restaurants and travel agencies on the other, the square which lies hard by the elegant, despairingly silent maritime passenger terminal, owes its name not to some putative liberation of Greek Macedonia.
		The embarrassment, for Salonica's masters, is that the Greeks had very little to do with it, except as onlookers." [p.9]
		If Macedonia was to be the meal, Salonica would be the plat de resistance".
	www.macedon.org /anmacs/salonica_terminus.htm (413 words)

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