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Ethnic cleansing
; ADRIANOPLE -- In a never-ending, staggering march the Christian population of Eastern Thrace is jamming the roads towards Macedonia. The main column crossing the Maritza River at Adrianople is twenty miles long. Twenty miles of carts drawn by cows, bullocks and muddy-flanked water buffaloes, with exhausted...
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The enemy within
; ...429 6655 On the 9 August 378 AD near Adrianople in Thrace the Roman army of the East...without siege engines to take towns like Adrianople and Contantinople, whose walls they...stalemate. The result was the disaster of Adrianople. For Barbero Adrianople and its consequences...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1903: Orient Express Targeted
; ...0000 SOFIA: A bridge on the Turkish Oriental railways was blown up with dynamite at 2.30 this morning [March 31], between Adrianople and Mustapha Pasha, at a point three kilometres from the latter place. The explosion occurred thirty minutes after the passage...
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Heretical Fables
; ...again, in these troubling times, I pull from the shelf a unique Hebrew book, first published in 1553 in the Ottoman city of Adrianople. It's called "Shevet Yehuda," which may be translated as the Scepter of Judah (see Genesis 49:10), or Tribe, or Rod, as wielded...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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PAPERBACKS.
; ...Simon Shaw The Day Of The Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero Atlantic ? 8.99 . ?8.99 inc p& p (0845 155 0713) *** The battle of Adrianople isn't as well known as Waterloo but was one of the most decisive events in European history. The battle took place in 378...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Letter: Voice of the North - Learn a little from history of the Serbs.(Letters)
; ...the North, December 28) should learn a little of the regional history. By 1361, Muslims from modern day Turkey had captured Adrianople in Thrace. This was to be used as a base for attacks on Europe. In 1389 Serbia was a thriving, prosperous and chivalrous country...
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Madder red - a revolutionary color. (dyestuff for Turkey red color) (Chemical History)
; ...Industrial Revolution. It was also, in the form of Turkey or Adrianople Red, a triumph of Islamic technology. Three centuries ago...introduced into France around 1776 by a group of dyers from Adrianople who built a factory near Rouen. Details leaked out, and other...
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The Day Of The Barbarians BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
; ...pages. $24.95. Walker & Company. *On Aug. 9, 378, near Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, Gothic tribesmen annihilated...Barbarians.'' For as Barbero convincingly maintains, the battle of Adrianople, though little known today, ''changed the course of world...
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Anniversaries
; ...Remus", 1908; Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee, singer, 1986. On this day: Licinius was defeated by Constantine at the Battle of Adrianople, 323; John Logie Baird made the first colour television transmission, 1928; the Four-Power occupation of Berlin began, 1945...
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The Ottoman Empire.(LETTERS)
; ...three days of bloody slaughter in which Greeks were either murdered or systematically rounded up and sent off to slavery in Adrianople. The institution of the janizaries wiped out generations of Greek and other Christian boys who were forcibly taken from their...
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