Word: aegean
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What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...
...Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united at least in spirit. The reward...
More than ten years have passed since the Treaty of London was signed (1913), when the Powers set the boundary of Turkey-in-Europe along a line drawn from Enos on the Aegean Sea to Medea on the Black Sea. The Powers should have fixed a straight line, because, a little later, the Turks successfully upheld their claim to territory within a curved line that took in Adrianople...
...annual exhibition at the Burlington House, London. There are two sensations in this year's otherwise moderate display. The first is W. Russell Flint's sex picture, The Lemnians, a canvas displaying little more than coarse sensuality. (The Lemnians occupied Lemnos, an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. According to an old Greek legend, they murdered all the men on the island in revenge for desertion by their husbands. They were discovered by the Argonauts soon after...
Before the War Bulgaria had a large sea frontage on the Aegean. But the Treaty of Neuilly gave this to Greece. Thus the Bulgarian seaboard was confined exclusively to the Black Sea. At the same time, however, the Allies promised Bulgaria an outlet on the Aegean; it being recognized that such an outlet was an economic necessity. In 1921 the Allies made Bulgaria an offer of an enclave on the Aegean coast; this was unacceptable to her without a corridor through Western Thrace to the Bulgarian border. Last week, Professor Zankov, new Bulgarian Premier, accused the Powers of bad faith...