Macedonia, a plea for the primitive . from shells and bullets, still bear minaret of St. Sophia, stubbornly held bythe Bulgars, furnishes to this day ocular proof ofthe hot rifle fire directed on it by the Greeks. SALONIKA: HISTORICAL 127 However, the Bulgars were outfought in the cityas they were later in the field, and, by the treatyof Bucharest, Salonika became definitely Greek. Such in brief is the story of Salonika. If thereis another metropolis in Europe which has beenmore ardently or more extensively coveted,history has failed to disclose it. If there is anothercity whose a
Macedonia, a plea for the primitive . from shells and bullets, still bear minaret of St. Sophia, stubbornly held bythe Bulgars, furnishes to this day ocular proof ofthe hot rifle fire directed on it by the Greeks. SALONIKA: HISTORICAL 127 However, the Bulgars were outfought in the cityas they were later in the field, and, by the treatyof Bucharest, Salonika became definitely Greek. Such in brief is the story of Salonika. If thereis another metropolis in Europe which has beenmore ardently or more extensively coveted,history has failed to disclose it. If there is anothercity whose ancient wall is more battle-scarred orweather-beaten, the tranquillity of later years hassufficed to remove the deepest traces. If only theeye could re-visualize or the mind encompass thedeeds and calamities which have had their enact-ment under the frowning brow of Mt. Hortiach,the brain would reel at the agglomeration of warand woe, just as ones pulse would quicken at theperformance of numerous deeds of valour andfeats of CHAPTER X SALONIKA: THE MODERN TOWN A T the risk of labouring the expression/ ^ Peari of the Mgean, as apphed to/ %^ Salonika, one must repeat that whetheron account of the cupidity it excitedin foreign invaders or on account of its picturesqueappearance from the sea, the title is amply justi-fied. So pleasing is its setting and perspectivethat an artist or anyone with a sense of thebeautiful is straightway filled with a desire tomaroon himself in the middle of the harbour andendeavour to depict in colour the panoramabefore him. So perfect is the composition of thepicture that it seems to have been controlled andset out from the sea, just as the expert window-dresser directs his scheme from the tiers of white, red-roofed houses, interspersedwith graceful minarets, stretch in a vast amphi-theatre from the upper gallery of the ancientwalls down to a proscenium of deep blue a fringe of boats as the foreground, themauve-tinted he
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