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Word: vardar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strategically, the Allies might be better fixed for World War II. With Turkey, Rumania and Greece on the Allied side, expeditions could be sent against a German-Hungarian alliance through the Vardar River valley from Salonika, along the so-called Diagonal Furrow that reaches from Istanbul through Bulgaria to Belgrade, up the valley of the lower Danube from Rumania, and over the passes of the Transylvanian Alps, which are a southerly extension of the Carpathians. All this could be done provided the Allies eliminate Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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