Word: konitsa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, people told each other that the question was not "What will the New Year bring?" but "Will there be a New Year?" Greeks rejoiced in the news that Konitsa had been relieved (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Athens, people embraced and wished each other "Hronia Polla, adelphi mou" ("Many years, O brother of mine") -but many wryly replied, "How many years?" In Italy, New Year's Day ushered in the new constitution and, officially, the new Italian Republic. The flag-raising ceremony at the Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso...
...Konitsa held out. That was the biggest news from northwestern Greece, the warmest front in the world's cold...
Battle of the Bridge. Konitsa had been picked as the capital of the Communist rebels' newly proclaimed "provisional government." When the battle began, the government garrison in the besieged, isolated town consisted of less than 1,000 men. Konitsa's normal population of 5,000 was swollen by refugees. Rebel shells struck terror among the civilians...
Fight for a Capital. In the rugged, snow-covered uplands of northwestern Greece, the Vafiades rebels attacked with 23 battalions, according to government estimates. They seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government garrison in Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from...