Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everywhere & Nowhere." The dawn was breaking beyond Turkish Thrace as the patrol, swinging back toward headquarters by another route, clattered into Kalamokastron. Here, the chagrined Greek captain discovered, the Andartes had raided that very night but had left hurriedly when the grapevine-remarkably swift for an area without formal communications-brought news that the patrol...
...updated tabulation of what the Administration hopes to spend on all foreign aid programs through fiscal 1949. The jolting total: $9,333 million. Major items in addition to ERP: $1.4 billion for government and relief in occupied areas; $570 million for aid to China; $430 million for Greek-Turkish aid, Japanese-Korean reconstruction, Trieste aid and inter-American military cooperation; $133 million for Philippine war damage...
Last fall, hardy Turkish diggers hacked their way into a dense, bandit-ridden forest in southern Anatolia. There they discovered a Hittite royal palace with lines of two-headed stone bulls. Among the bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons...
...bumped into the main square at the foot of the town, was that the shellfire had not done much damage. The houses are solid affairs built of grey stone with ivy and moss growing on the eternally damp walls. The shells merely seemed to have chipped their Turkish-built solidity...
...bishop referred to a famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence in the 18203. After her husband was captured and executed by the Turks, Lascarina Bouboulina replaced him as a sea raider, took command of his ship and effectively harried Turkish shipping in the Aegean...