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Thessaloniki - A City in Transition, 1912-2012 (Hardcover)
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Thessaloniki - A City in Transition, 1912-2012 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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This book shares the conclusions of a remarkable conference marking
the centennial of Thessaloniki's incorporation into the Greek state
in 1912. Like its Roman and Byzantine predecessors, Ottoman
Salonica was the metropolis of a huge, multi-ethnic Balkan
hinterland, a center of modernization/westernization, and the de
facto capital of Sephardic Judaism. The powerful attraction it
exerted on competing local nationalisms, including the Young Turks,
gave it a paradigmatic role in the transition from imperial to
national rule in southeastern Europe. Twenty-three articles cover
the multicultural physiognomy of a 'Levantine' city. They describe
the mechanisms for cultivating national consciousness (including
education, journalism, the arts, archaeology, and urban planning),
the relationship between national identity, religious identity, and
an evolving socialist labor movement, anti-Semitism, and the
practical issues of governing and assimilating diverse non-Greek
populations after Greece's military victory in 1912. Analysis of
this transformation extends chronologically through the arrival of
Greek refugees from Turkey and the Black Sea in 1923, the
Holocaust, the Greek civil war, and the new waves of migration
after 1990. These processes are analyzed on multiple levels,
including civil administration, land use planning, and the
treatment of Thessaloniki's historic monuments. This work
underscores the importance of cities and their local histories in
shaping the key national narratives that drove development in
southeastern Europe. Those lessons are highly relevant today, as
Europe reacts to renewed migratory pressures and the rise of new
nationalist movements, and draws lessons, valid or otherwise, from
the nation-building experiments of the previous century.
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