Word: anatolia
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...nerves of every living thing in Anatolia vibrated like taut catgut to the first, subaudible, microseismic music of an impending earthquake. The slow vibration became a horrible hum, and grew, like the sound of approaching bombers. Then the shock...
...real losers of last week's French-Turkish diplomacy were the Arabs. As for the Republic of Syria, it will be a landlocked country, dispossessed of a sea outlet. From the sloping hills of Southern Anatolia to the sharp, barren rocks of Aden there were bound to be universal and indignant protests that the Arabs had again been betrayed, that an Arab State had again suffered as the pawn of British-French power politics. The soft, sweet words that Aggrandizer Hitler undoubtedly whispered to Khalid al Hud at Berchtesgaden, the inflammable anti-British and anti-French propaganda that goes...
...Balkans, Greece invaded Turkey, occupied Anatolia, was driven back after more than a year of fighting. Rumanian, Czech and Yugoslavian armies overran Hungary, seized livestock, locomotives, battled the Communist Government of Bela...
...east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted during the Institute's excavations...
Chaldean Francis Thomay was born in Constantinople, educated by Lazarists and Jesuits. From his youth he saw many another Christian butchered by the Turks. Ordained and stationed in Mosul during the War, Father Thomay was put in charge of 200,000 Christians deported by the Turks from Armenia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia because he was the only priest in Mosul who could speak Turkish. By the end of the War, privation had reduced his charges to 10,000. As a result of the massacres and starvation in the Near East, the Chaldean Catholic Church lost six archbishops, 150 priests, almost...