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Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall, “Writing the World from an African
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Cf. postmodern Miami: see Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble, “Cul-
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E. A. Chekimoglou, Thessalonikē: Tourkokratia kai mesopolemos (Thessa-
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SVS, 1902 – 3 , 134 ; SVS, 1904 – 5 , 76.
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144 , which lists Mehmet Kapancı as a banker. Mehmet Alkan notes how Meh-
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Terakki Okulları, 35. French and American commercial and diplomatic sources
also noted the importance of this banker.
Istoria tēs epicheirēmatikotētas stē Thessalonikē, ed. Roupa and Chekimo-
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Evangelos Chekimoglou, “The Jewish Bourgeoisie in Thessaloníki,
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Dēmētriadēs, Topografia tēs Thessalonikīs, 192.
SVS, 1889 – 90 , 257 ; SVS, 1902 – 3 , 419 – 20.
SVS, 1889 – 90 , 257 ; SVS, 1904 – 5 , 95 ; SVS, 1907 – 8 , 133. See also Annuaire
commercial & administratif du Vilayet de Salonique, 172 , which lists him as a
dealer in manufactured goods.
SVS, 1907 – 8 , 133.
Interviews, fall 2005 , summer 2006 , summer 2007.
Annuaire commercial & administratif du Vilayet de Salonique, 144 , 150.
Interviews, summer 2003.
SVS, 1900 – 1901 , 361 ; SVS, 1902 – 3 , 432. See also Annuaire commercial &
