Word: epirus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dowries are as old as the country itself. In rural Greece and its islands, nubile maidens are decked out on feast days in necklaces, bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry...
...making an attempt to change the old script. Last week, in an act that in effect ended a 31-year undeclared state of war, Greece and Albania established normal diplomatic relations by exchanging ambassadors. As the price of reconciliation, Athens apparently dropped its 100-year-old claim to North Epirus, a large chunk of southern Albania populated by many Greeks. The two countries, which since 1940 had icily ignored one another and kept their mutual border tightly closed, are now expected to undertake joint ventures in promoting trade and tourism...