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	WHKMLA : History of Greece, 1918-1924
		The TREATY OF SEVRES (Aug. 1920) foresaw that Greek troops would continue to occupy the Smyrna region for 5 years, after which the regional government could request a plebiscite.
		King Alexander had died in October 1920, and the royalists won the election.
		The Greek population was weary of years of continued war.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/greece191824.html

	THUS - Greeks in Turkey; Turkish Hellenic Union Solutions
		The Treaty of Sèvres, signed with Turkey on August 10, 1920, gave Greece the Aegean Islands, hence command of the Dardanelles, and the eastern half of Thrace except for Constantinople.
		In the winter of 1921, the Greek government decided on a military confrontation with the Turkish nationalist movement led by Mustafa Kemal (later known as Atatürk) which was growing in strength and threatening the Smyrna Protectorate.
		After five years, a plebiscite would determine which country would have sovereignty.
	www.photius.com /thus/greeks_in_turkey.html

	The Kings of Greece
		He was ousted in 1924 when a plebiscite abolished the monarchy, but was restored to the throne in 1935- when another plebiscite brought it back.
		It is a long document, but it contains all the facts of King Constantine II's case against the Greek government.
		Upon Alexander I's death in 1920, he was King once more, but was forced to abdicate in 1922 in favor of his eldest son, George II.
	www.angelfire.com /celeb/millers/greece1.html

	The Balkans in WWI
		On the north, the border with Austria is favorably drawn in the Treaty of Saint-Germain of Sept. 1919, though Yugoslav claims to the Klagenfurt area are defeated in a plebiscite of Oct. 1920.
		In the Treaty of Lausanne of July 1923 the 1913 border with Turkey is restored and populations are exchanged, contributing to the 1,300,000 million immigrants Greece must absorb in the 1920s.
		With the collapse of Ottoman power, the Greeks claim eastern Thrace, Constantinople, the Straits, and much of western Anatolia.
	dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu /balkans/wwone.htm (4013 words)

	Treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne - All About Turkey
		Armenia became a separate republic under international guarantees, and Smyrna (now Izmir) and its environs was placed under Greek administration pending a plebiscite to determine its permanent status.
		Atatürk's separate treaty with the USSR and his subsequent victories against the Greeks during the War of Independence forced the Allies to negotiate a new treaty in 1923 (Treaty of Lausanne).
		Peace treaty concluded in 1920 after World War I at Sevres, France, between the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), on the one hand, and the Allies (excluding Russia and the United States) on the other.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /antlasma.htm (4013 words)

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