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TITLE THE MINARETS OF SALONICA
WRITTER ARIS PAPAZOGLOU
PAGES 142
PRICE 15,00 €
ISBN 978-960-6681-35-6
At History's Registrar, March 29th 1430 is recorded as the last day of the Byzantine co-capital. The three-day siege followed a three-day looting. And thus, in a barbarous way, began a life that was to last for 482 years.
The Turkish conquest changed the city's appearance. The minarets that were raised next to the entrances of the churches, which were turned into Mosques, changed the face of Byzantine Salonika. In less than a century, the city, with the forest of minarets overhanging the rooftops, looked like a true Turkish city.
The minarets with their pointed tops and balconies from where the muezzin chanted the call to prayer five times a day, enchanted many foreign visitors during the five centuries of slavery.
The author, through cards, old photographs, engravings, and old thumbnails tried to salvage Islamic Salonica's image with the numerous white minarets which, mixed with the slim green cypresses and the low red roof tops, composed the graphic picture of Cassander for five centuries.
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