Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give Bulgaria a slice of Greek Thrace...
Meanwhile, at the Paris Peace Conference, Russian-dominated Bulgaria asked for the eastern half of Thrace. In effect, this would give Russia an Aegean coastline, an inferior port (Dede Agach). More important, it would further seal off the Straits, further menace Turkey and Greece...
Wanted: Macedonia. Macedonia lies on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea, between Turkish Thrace and the Albanian mountains. Bulgars, Serbs, Greeks have eyed it jealously ever since the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century...
...Salonika representatives of ELD, SKE and the Agrarian Party (another EAM group) declared that the civil war had been caused "by the irreconcilable policy of the Communist Party." They warned that Bulgars and Yugoslavs had been fighting with the ELAS forces and that Greece might lose Macedonia or Thrace to Yugoslavia or Bulgaria...
Another dividend was also forthcoming. By one of the armistice terms, the Bulgars agreed to renounce all claims to Thrace, which is in Britain's Greek sphere of influence, evacuate all civilian Bulgars from the region. The Bulgars also agreed: ¶ To continue fighting the Germans. ¶ To renounce all claims to Yugoslav territory seized in 1941. ¶ To furnish food to Yugoslavia, Greece...