Word: ragusa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...Ankara, a 4,768-ton freighter whose home port is Bremen, one of 28 German ships that holed up in Trieste when war began, last month ran down to Dubrovnik (better known to tourists as Ragusa), loaded, then lay for days while Belgrade hemmed & hawed. The Germans asked for a naval escort through Yugoslavia's neutral waters, hoping to establish a system whereby Nazi freighters could ply all around the neutral Balkan peninsula from Russia's Black Sea oil ports. But Yugoslavs had no wish to offend the Allies...