Word: maritsa
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Besides these major agricultural areas, there are other small but very productive districts, notably the mountain-locked valley of the Maritsa in Bulgaria-famous for its tobacco and its roses-the plains of Macedonia just to the south, the valleys of brace north of Salonika...
...leads through the mountains of Transylvania into the plain of the lower Danube, the route General von Falkenhayn took when he conquered Rumania in 1916. But the main route to Istanbul leads through Belgrade to Nish and thence through Sofia and down through the rich Bulgarian plain and the Maritsa Valley. From Nish through another pass is a route down the Vardar River to Salonika on the Aegean, a port which would serve as one terminus of an alternate route, by sea, through Suez to the East...
...forces of some real power, could make its way through Greece, or via Monastir in Yugoslavia to Salonika. From that point it could either ascend the Vardar River Valley towards Nish, or if that route is blocked by Hitler, make its way into Bulgaria up the Struma and Maritsa Valleys, or along the coast toward the Dardanelles...
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