Word: macedonias
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Greece. Southward-flowing rivers would carry Hitler into Macedonia and Thrace, where he could witness the Bulgarian invasion of Greece: several hundred thousand peasants have been turned out of their homes to make room for Bulgarian settlers. Beyond Greece would be the blue waters of the Aegean Sea, the purple minarets of Turkey and the terraced olive groves of Syria to lure him on. But some tiresome Nazi underling no doubt would urge the Führer to inspect fleets of dull grey invasion barges, squadrons of bombers, fighters and troop carriers hidden away in the islands off Greece...
...Partitioning of Greece is foreshadowed by the deportation of thousands of Greeks from Thrace and Macedonia, by an influx of Bulgarians to occupy the abandoned homes and farms...
...Sheep's Field was in Macedonia. "Of the surrounding hills one stood alone, magnificent in sharp austerity of cliff and pyramid: it is called 'the witness of God.' " Author West and her friends arrived at the Sheep's Field by car. "When we got out we were so near the rock that we could see its colour. It was a flat-topped rock . . . rising to something like six feet above the ground, and it was red-brown and gleaming, for it was entirely covered with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed...
...went to Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Old Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro. She climbed mountains, visited Roman and Venetian ruins, tuberculosis sanatoria, Turkish mosques, shrines, churches, monasteries, tombs, hovels, homes. She talked with intellectuals, professors, lawyers, peasants, poets, censors, soldiers, politicians, anti-Serb Croats, fanatical Serb nationalists, Bosnian Moslems and unassimilated Turks...
Bulgaria, too, fought sabotage. Police and military forces had to "reestablish" order as a result of Greek uprising in Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia...