Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of minor earth shocks and a score of major quakes occurred, last week, in a narrow area some 500 miles long and stretching from Varna, on the Black Sea across Bulgaria, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea to Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
Other Catastrophies. In the long, narrow area of.disaster a cyclone swept the islands of Syra & Mitylene, in the Aegean Sea, unroofing hundreds of houses. A quake racked Adrianople, in Thrace. Finally a tidal wave rose from the Black Sea to inundate the Bulgarian port of Varna, which simultaneously quivered...
...enlisted under the banner of Plastiras and Gonatas. While the unhappy George II "reigned though he could not rule," a degenerate struggle for supremacy was waged between Plastiras at Athens and his purely nominal adherent, Pangalos, who had succeeded in demanding and obtaining the military governorship of Macedonia and Thrace. Bribes and the subtle poisons for which the modern Greeks are notorious were resorted to with abandon. By 1923, Pangalos had gathered sufficient power to become chiefly instrumental in forcing King George II into exile (TIME, Dec. 31, 1923) despite the Influence of "Dictator" Plastiras, who wished to retain...
...completely autonomous kingdom out of the Bos-nia-Herzegovina squabbles in 1908. The Powers recognized this title in 1909, and Ferdinand built up his country, which he styled "Mon Oeuvre," by tireless devotion to public works and by obtaining the annexation to Bulgaria of a part of Thrace in 1913. On Oct. 3, 1918, Tsar Ferdinand was forced by the victorious Allies to abdicate in favor of the present Tsar Boris. He has led a superficially retired existence since then, but rumor pictures him as ever busy with secret intrigue in the interests of the dynasty which he founded...
...much as $35,000 and years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...