Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum, 21, pretty, plump, short, graceful and possessed of "large, .luminous and altogether entrancing black eyes," is the daughter of Mouamerou-Chaki Bey, rich merchant of Smyrna, who once had connections with the New York Stock Exchange...
...child she received her education first from an English governess; later, at Tudor Hall, Chiselhurst, near London. During the Graeco-Turkish War of 1921-22, she, living in Smyrna with her papa, was kept under surveillance by the Greeks, who believed her to be a spy. When, in the summer of 1922, the Turks drove the Greeks into the sea and triumphantly entered Smyrna, Latife Hanoum, at the head of a group of Turkish maidens, first saw the manly form of "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, then about 41 years of age, to whom she offered buns, coffee and shelter under...
...Smyrna, where she once more resided under her father's roof, a diligent reporter discovered her. Said she to him with many gestures...
...generally welcomed. Papa, pleased, did the "heavy" by arranging a marriage dowry of a million Turkish pounds (then about $650,000). The marriage took place on Jan. 29, 1923. Latife was in the kitchen, so the story goes, superintending a feast being prepared in honor of the recapture of Smyrna. About 50 guests were present. Mustafa Kemal Pasha asked to see his fiancee. He suggested to her that they marry forthwith, to which proposal the girl readily assented after but a moment of blushing hesitation. A mufti was called in and speedily performed the ceremony...
...modern languages in the college of William and Mary. Carlo Bellini was a clerk in the treasurer's office in Florence and accompanied his friend Mazzei as a social equal to Virginia. Mazzei was an Italian physician, who had been a merchant for a few years in Smyrna, and later in London, before coming to Virginia. After Mazzei's return to Europe from Virginia, he held various important positions, among others, financial agent for Virginia in Europe, and privy councillor to the King of Poland. The two friends corresponded for years on intimate terms. In the Library...