Word: marmora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...council of the vilayet*; of Constantinople appointed a commission to rename certain villages and districts which have a Greek or Byzantine name. In each case a Turkish equivalent must be found; in the case of San Stefano (on the Sea of Marmora near Constantinople), however, a new name must be found as it "savors of an alien faith...
Orders to prepare for evacuation within six weeks were given the 10,000 British troops at Chanak and Constantinople. Six U. S. destroyers steamed down the blue Marmora and out through the Dardanelles for home...