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Word: eskisehir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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Usage:

They know him, first, as a great soldier who fought in the Balkan and First World Wars, then helped Kamâl Atatürk to drive the Greeks out of Turkey in 1922. At the village of Inönü, near Eskisehir, Ismet Pasha broke the Greeks' resistance. When Kamâl Atatürk ordered all Turks to take family names he asked his great friend to call himself Inönü. Ismet means Chastity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Door to Dreamland | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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