Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia would consist of six federated, autonomous districts (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Montenegro, Macedonia), each with its own local government, schools, customs...
Territorial Demands. The new power at once began to expand. Yugoslav Macedonians insisted that Yugoslavia's new Macedonian district should include not only Bulgarian Macedonia but Greek Macedonia...
Said Bulgarian Prime Minister Kimon Georgiev, whose country is controlled by the Red Army and Communist-dominated Partisan bands: "I can definitely state Bulgaria will create no difficulties." But Greek Macedonia is the richest of all Greek provinces and includes the big Aegean port of Salonika...
Beacon of the German exit was smoking, demolished Salonika (Thessalonike), chief port of Macedonia. It was through Salonika that the Germans had supplied the Aegean islands, through Salonika that they moved back out of the Mediterranean. The "coveted city" that "crouches on the edge of the hill and touches the sea with her feet" is a major Balkan port, served as an Allied base in World War I. Destroyed by a famous two-day fire in 1917, it was rebuilt as a modern city. Last week it was a shambles again; more than 50 ships had been sunk...
Bulgaria capitulated to the Russian Army on Sept. 6. Armistice terms were delayed because: 1) the E.A.C. was too busy with the bigger problem of what to do with Germany; 2) Bulgarians made no move to get out of Yugoslav Macedonia and Greek Thrace, a condition on which Britain insisted. Last week the Bulgars were reported ready to sign...