Word: aegean
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...wait," said the police. Twenty minutes later they carried off Tsakolos. An hour later he was at Piraeus, headed for exile on an Aegean island...
...created where Greek guerrillas could surrender their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port of Salonika to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria...
After 30 minutes of hellish panic, the Chimara rolled over, sank at once. Down with her went 200 or more, mostly women & children-and 40 Greek leftist guerrillas chained in her hold (their destination had been an exile camp in the Aegean Islands). Many who had quit the ship died in the sea. Hours later fewer than 200 survivors were accounted for. The dead and missing: more than...
Meanwhile, at the Paris Peace Conference, Russian-dominated Bulgaria asked for the eastern half of Thrace. In effect, this would give Russia an Aegean coastline, an inferior port (Dede Agach). More important, it would further seal off the Straits, further menace Turkey and Greece...
...Rectification of Turkey's Balkan frontier. Apparently this meant the cession to Bulgaria of the Turkish Aegean port of Alexandroupolis (Dedeagach...