Note 592 — CON RUMBO A LA ESPERANZA Vicente Blasco Ibáñez[574]

Salónica, city and port in northern Greece, captured from the Turks during the recent Balkan War (1912). When the Jews were expelled from Spain during the reign of Philip II, they took refuge in Turkish lands, particularly in Salonica, which to this day is largely populated by them. Their language, a form of Spanish corrupted by years of separation from Spanish-speaking peoples, is called ladino and can be easily understood by one speaking Spanish. In New York there is published to-day a ladino newspaper in Hebrew characters.