Word: epirus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touring her realm's hinterland, Greece's vivacious Queen Frederika, in a sporty getup, was in gay spirits at a festival in her honor in an Epirus village, won smiles and applause from the townsfolk as she stepped adroitly through the paces of a folk dance, relaxed folksily afterwards...
...thing, not many of the Greek repatriates actually went home. Most of their villages were destroyed in the war. They are billeted in Epirus and Macedonia, which are two of the poorest regions in a poor country. The repatriates have not enough to eat, and no employment. Under their Communist masters, they were adequately clothed and housed and fed so long as they worked hard and did not rebel. In advanced countries like Czechoslovakia, some had also learned trades which, in northern Greece, they cannot...
...Even Goodbye. In the palace with Frederika was a group of black-clad peasant women huddled at her side. Kaliroe Gouloumi, from Gorgopotamos, in Epirus, remembered how the Communists took her children: "They were in our village for a year. First they took our animals, then our food, then our children. I had three." Kaliroe wiped her eyes with her black shawl. "They did not even let me say goodbye. They said they were no longer my children but their children...