Course Details
Country:
Greece
Institution:
American College of Thessaloniki Summer School
Course Title:
Thessaloniki: A City and its Inhabitants
Course Number:
HIST 232
Course Description:
History 232: Thessaloniki: A City and its Inhabitants
Throughout its long history Thessaloniki has been home to many different peoples and cultures. The purpose of this course is to review the history of the city and to focus on the different ethnic communities which have inhabited it, including principally Greeks, Turks, Jews, and Armenians, among others. The course will consider the establishment of the city in Hellenistic times, its Roman and Byzantine periods, the impact of the Ottoman occupation, the coming of the Sephardic Jews, the effects of the Balkan and the two World Wars as well as those of the Holocaust on the city. It will include visits to such important cultural sites as the Archeological Museum, the Museum of Byzantine culture, the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Roman antiquities and Ottoman buildings.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
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