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Word: izmir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern times they fought in 1896-97 over Crete, which eventually went to Greece after a brief spell of independence, and in 1920 over Izmir, a Turkish province on the Aegean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Big Troubles over a Small Island | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...teams. The rest are simply raped. Even the official digs are ill-protected by a skeleton force of guards, who are paid an average $50 per month-not a salary likely to attract qualified men capable of thwarting organized robbers like the trio who, in 1968, broke into the Izmir Fair Archaeological Museum, rifled its collection of antique Aegean jewelry, vases and marble carvings, and crushed the watchman's skull with a stolen statue as they departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hot from the Tomb: The Antiquities Racket | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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