Place · Ottoman world
Salonika
A major Ottoman port and leading Sephardi center.
40.6981°N 22.8831°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Thessaloniki ↗
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Around the middle of the sixteenth century, each of Salonika and Istanbul housed roughly 20,000 Jews.
Salonika reached roughly 30,000 Jews, half the city's population, in the seventeenth century.
Salonikan Jews paid part of the jizya in cloth supplied to the Janissaries.
Community: Jews of Salonika, a Sephardi center of Ladino and textiles.
Salonika reached roughly 30,000 Jews, half the city's population, in the seventeenth century. Salonikan Jews paid part of the jizya in cloth supplied to the Janissaries.
Community: Donme of Salonika
Hundreds of Salonikan followers converted and formed the Donme sect.
Community: Salonikan Sephardim between millet and nation-state.
Imperial dissolution placed Sephardim under new homogenizing nation-states.