Thessaloniki - The city with many memories
Simone Böcker and Chrissi Wilkens
There are many different Thessalonikis: the Salonika of the Jews, the Selanik of the Turks, the Solun of the Serbs, Macedonians and Bulgarians. And of course the Thessaloniki of the Greeks. During the Ottoman empire, they lived together in this multi-ethnic city - the epitome of the melting pot of different religions and cultures in the Balkans. After wars, forced relocations and the Holocaust it remains only a memory. Thessaloniki today is almost exclusively monolingual Greek and Christian Orthodox. Few cities have undergone such a homogenization. But the traces of their former inhabitants can still be found.
Deutschlandfunk, 25.9.2010




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