Lost Solun: A History in Pictures

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  • Niko777
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2010
    • 1895

    Lost Solun: A History in Pictures

    SOLUN - NEVER FORGET!


    Zlatnata Porta (The Golden Gate), destroyed in 1911



    View of some Roman Ruins in 1831, destroyed later, the sculptures were saved in the Louvre museum in Paris



    Solun in 1688



    Solun in 1831



    Solun in 1897



    late 19th century





    White Tower, the outer walls were destroyed in 1911



    Macedonians executed (thrown off) the White Tower



    French Drawing of the VMRO attack on Ottoman trains, 1903



    VMRO attack the Ottoman Imperial Bank of Solun



    VMRO (Gemidzite) attack the French liner "Guadalkivir"



    Soldiers from Crete sent to Solun as response to VMRO



    Greek Army Captures Solun after the Turks left for good



    Bulgarian army arrives 5 minutes after the Greek army. Had they arrived earlier today's Macedonia (most of it) would have been under Bulgarian occupation



    Street scene in Solun, after 1913



    The great fire of 1917 destroyed most of the city and its buildings, leaving a clean slate for the Greek occupiers...



    Map of the destroyed city:



    Map of the Greek government's urban plan for Solun, giving the city a new face.



    Nazis occupy Solun, 1941



    50,000 Macedonian Jews of Solun, who made up the majority of the city's population, deported to the concentration camps.

    Last edited by Niko777; 03-09-2011, 11:56 PM.
  • julie
    Senior Member
    • May 2009
    • 3869

    #2
    Thank you Niko.
    We lost so many Macedonians
    "The moral revolution - the revolution of the mind, heart and soul of an enslaved people, is our greatest task."__________________Gotse Delchev

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    • George S.
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 10116

      #3
      thanks for the pics niko.
      "Ido not want an uprising of people that would leave me at the first failure, I want revolution with citizens able to bear all the temptations to a prolonged struggle, what, because of the fierce political conditions, will be our guide or cattle to the slaughterhouse"
      GOTSE DELCEV

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      • Niko777
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2010
        • 1895

        #4
        We lost so many Macedonians
        Macedonians were not the only ones.

        I will be posting more photos soon featuring the city's multicultural past. Everyone should remember the Solun was a cosmopolitan city with many different and unique ethnic groups. It was a city shared by many, a city of tolerance, not meant to be dominated by a single racist nationalistic group.

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        • Niko777
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2010
          • 1895

          #5
          The Jewish community of Solun

          Please take the time to read this.

          Solun was the home of a historical centre of Sephardic life; the city was called the "Mother of Israel" by Samuel Usque. Macedonian Jews played an important role in the early development of Christianity, and became a source of education and commerce for the Byzantine Empire and throughout the period of Ottoman Macedonia, until suffering devastation in the Holocaust after Greece was occupied by the Axis powers in WWII.

          The majority of the Macedonian Jews are Sephardim whose ancestors had left Portugal, Spain and Italy. Their traditional language was Ladino, and, until the Holocaust, "was a unique blend of Ottoman, Balkan and Hispanic influences". After their expulsion from Spain, between fifteen and twenty thousand more Jews settled in Solun.

          The Jewish community comprised more than half of the city's population by the early 1900s. As a result of the Jewish influence on the city, many non-Jewish inhabitants of Solun spoke Ladino, and the city virtually shut down on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. Many sea-travellers reaching the port of Solun humorously recalled that Solun was a city where people worked only four days while resting three consecutive days. This was due to the three major religions the population adhered to and their respective resting days: Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews and Sunday for Christians.

          50,000 people were sent to Auschwitz. 1,950 returned to find most of their synagogues and schools destroyed, and property seized by Greece. Many survivors emigrated to Israel and the United States.Today the Jewish population of Solun numbers roughly 1,000.


          Ezdra Isak Florentin - A Jew from Solun who fought in the VMRO



          Jewish Family in Solun



          Jewish lemonade seller



          Jewish men



          Jewish family



          Jewish women



          Jewish cemetery of Solun





          The Jewish cemetery was destroyed by the Greeks once the Jews had left. They build the University of Thessaloniki on top of it. Here is what is left of the cemetery today, on the property of the university:



          Here is one of few survivng synagogues of Solun. It is called "Synagogue of the Monasteriotes" by Greeks because it was built by Jews from Manastir (Bitola).



          Here is the city's other synagogue, the "Italia Yassan Synagogue"



          Jewish newspapers from Solun 1900 - 1930

          Last edited by Niko777; 03-10-2011, 01:13 PM.

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          • The LION will ROAR
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2009
            • 3231

            #6

            Greek Army Captures Solun after the Turks left for good
            These soldiers are Cretan gendarmes, picture taken in Solun, 1912-1913
            The Macedonians originates it, the Bulgarians imitate it and the Greeks exploit it!

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            • The LION will ROAR
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2009
              • 3231

              #7
              SOLUN





              1913
              The Macedonians originates it, the Bulgarians imitate it and the Greeks exploit it!

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              • The LION will ROAR
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2009
                • 3231

                #8


                Jews in 1942
                The Macedonians originates it, the Bulgarians imitate it and the Greeks exploit it!

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                • The LION will ROAR
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2009
                  • 3231

                  #9

                  West of Solun ablaze on the morning of 19th August 1917

                  Hotel Splendid during the fire


                  Solun during the Great Fire in 1917.

                  Waterfront furing the fire

                  After the great fire of 1917

                  The city centre after the great fire of 1917
                  The Macedonians originates it, the Bulgarians imitate it and the Greeks exploit it!

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                  • The LION will ROAR
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2009
                    • 3231

                    #10

                    1923 - Refugees arriving from Asia Minor - Population exchange between Greece and Turkey

                    Refugees settlement 1962
                    The Macedonians originates it, the Bulgarians imitate it and the Greeks exploit it!

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                    • Niko777
                      Senior Member
                      • Oct 2010
                      • 1895

                      #11
                      The Macedonian Community of Solun

                      Macedonians under the influence of the Exarchate

                      Men's Gymnazia "Sveti Kiril i Metodij"











                      Girl's School

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                      • Niko777
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2010
                        • 1895

                        #12
                        Macedonian community of Solun Part 2

                        Macedonians in various Exarchate Organizations



                        National Federation Party



                        Children's Music Association



                        One of the Exarchate churches in Solun "Sveti Kiril i Metodij" - destroyed by the Greeks in 1913

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                        • Niko777
                          Senior Member
                          • Oct 2010
                          • 1895

                          #13
                          Macedonian community of Solun Part 3

                          Flag of the VMRO - Solun Division





                          VMRO from Solun

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                          • Niko777
                            Senior Member
                            • Oct 2010
                            • 1895

                            #14
                            Macedonian community of Solun Part 3

                            Macedonian family of Solun



                            Macedonian peasant costumes from Solun





                            Macedonian dance - Solun

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                            • Niko777
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2010
                              • 1895

                              #15
                              Many modern and well known academics from the Republic of Macedonia were born in Solun, including:

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                              Dimo Todorovski (Born 1910, Solun - died 1983, Skopje), Sculptor, Artist

                              I'm sure everyone is familiar with his famous work - Mechkin Kamen, in Krushevo


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                              Kiril Penushliski (born 1912, Solun - died 2004, Skopje), author, poet, folklorist, general secretary of the University of Skopje



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                              Simeon Gugulovski (born 1941, Solun - died 1995, Sofia) folklorist, member of the Macedonian National Theatre, most famous for singing "Zemjo Makedonska" and "Narode Makedonski"

                              YouTube - Narode Makedonski - Simeon Gugulovski
                              YouTube - Zemjo makedonska - Simeon Gugulovski

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