Word: matis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dead Bird. Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title...
...mind last week. One enters, climbs a neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
...Dictator Mussolini. His tribal family is among the most ancient in Albania, and its wild, remote highland strongholds between Tirana and Scutari are probably impregnable to an army not especially equipped for mountaineering. There Ahmed Bey Zogu is not so much President of Albania as Chief of the Mati tribes...
...Malvy, exiled for défaitisme, Joseph Caillaux, convicted for "endangering France's alliances" (TIME, June 2). Everyone began to shout at once, a not uncommon occurrence in the Chambre. Then, high above the mighty tumult, a shrill voice from the Right was heard enunciating the name of Mati Hari (famed Dutch dancer, shot as a spy during the War; alleged mistress of Louis Malvy). Instantly Louis, whose term of exile was recently completed and who now sits in the Chambre as a Communist Député, rose to his feet, arms akimbo, fixing the Right with...
...Constitution embodied the idea of a centralized government, violated all the tribal rights and traditions, except those of the Mati. News was sent out to the outlying provinces telling of the perfidy of Ahmed and pretty soon that individual had a man-sized revolt on his hands. After some weeks of fighting, Ahmed fled to Yugo-Slavia and left the field clear to Bishop Noli and his comrades...