Word: struma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek Civil War's land front was drawn last week along the River Struma in Eastern Macedonia, famed for non-Greek wars in 42 B. C. and 1917 A. D. Day after day General Kondylis announced, "We have crushed the rebels." Day after day, rain, snow and sleet froze the two armies in their tracks in the shadow of the mountains of Boz. Both sides fought best with rumors: that Venizelos had been wounded by an airplane bomb; that he had fled to Egypt; that the Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over...