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Word: latakia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illiterate ex-god named Suleiman Effendi Murshed, 38, eased himself for the first time into his seat in the Chamber of Deputies and prepared to think politically. Cannily aligning himself with the moderates, he set out to show the folks back in the bare, brutal hills behind Latakia in northern Syria that their god had done well to trade in his robes for a Deputy's toga. He and every other Deputy, new & old, had one program: independence from the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God into Deputy | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth which he is sinking into Turkish gold and British sovereigns and real estate in Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo. Thus it is that, backed by 15 or 20 thousand rifles, he could proclaim himself 'god' and make the people believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God into Deputy | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Henry's campaign was divided into four main drives (see map): from the south, for Beirut and for Damascus; from the east, for Palmyra and for Aleppo (and Latakia). These objectives were to be taken if possible, said the British, "with a view to obviating needless strife and bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Mixed Show | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Objective of the upper column, of British-led Arabs from Iraq, was Aleppo, the old Hittite city with a 12th-Century Saracen citadel. There, two weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Mixed Show | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Aleppo-Latakia column was believed to be headed by Major John Bagot Glubb, commandant for the past decade of Trans-Jordan's independent Arab Legion and another latter-day Lawrence of Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Mixed Show | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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