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	Western Thrace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Thrace is divided into the three prefectures of Xanthi, Rodhopi and Evros, which together with the two Macedonian prefectures of Drama and Kavala form the Periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace.
		The approximate area of Western Thrace is 8,200 km² with a population of 368,993 (2005 est.).
		Western Thrace is bordered by Bulgaria to the north, Turkey to the east, the Aegean Sea to the south and the prefectures of Drama and Kavala to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Thrace (1135 words)

	Thrace - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thrace was united as a kingdom under the chieftain Sitalces, who aided Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but after his death (428 BC) the state again broke up.
		In 1878, N Thrace was made into the province of Eastern Rumelia ; after the annexation (1885) of Eastern Rumelia by Bulgaria (which had gained independence in 1878), the political meaning of the term Thrace became restricted to its southernmost part, which was still in Turkish hands.
		By the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) Greece also obtained most of Eastern Thrace except the zone of the Straits and Constantinople; the treaty, however, was superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), which restored to Turkey all Thrace E of the Maritsa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-thrace.html (855 words)

	Thrace - MSN Encarta
		The name Thrace was first applied by the ancient Greeks to the north-eastern shores of the Aegean Sea.
		Ancient Thrace was largely uncultivated and covered with forest; mineral deposits, particularly of gold, made the region a coveted possession.
		After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Congress of Berlin, the northern part of Thrace became an autonomous district, under the Turkish government, and was called Eastern Rumelia; the southern portion became the Turkish vilayet of Adrianople, now Edirne.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563568/Thrace.html (271 words)

	Thrace - All About Turkey
		By 342 B.C. all Thrace was held by Philip II of Macedon, and after 323 B.C. most of the country was in the hands of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great.
		In 1878, Northern Thrace was made into the province of Eastern Rumelia; after the annexation (1885) of Eastern Rumelia by Bulgaria (which had gained independence in 1878), the political meaning of the term Thrace became restricted to its southernmost part, which was still in Turkish hands.
		By the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) Greece also obtained most of Eastern Thrace except the zone of the Straits (Bosphorus and Dardanelles) and Constantinople (Istanbul); the treaty, however, was superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), which restored to Turkey all Thrace East of the Maritsa (Meriç) river.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /trakya.htm (799 words)

	THE TURKS OF WESTERN THRACE
		The areas referred to by Turks today as Western Thrace and by Greeks as Thrace came under Ottoman control in 1363-1364 with the rout of a combined Serb, Bosnian, and Hungarian army in 1364 on the Maritsa river near the city of Edirne.
		Thrace remained under Ottoman control until the First Balkan War of 1912-13, during which time the armies of Montenegro, Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria attacked the Ottoman Empire and ejected it from almost all of its European holdings.
		In 1920, Western Thrace was granted to Greece, and the territory remains part of the Republic of Greece.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/greece/Greec991-03.htm (1233 words)

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		Western Thrace is bordered on the North by Bulgaria, on the South by the Aegean Sea, on the east by Türkiye and on the west by Macedonia.
		The city of Iskeçe being inhabited mostly by Turkish population until the first quarter of the 20th century is known for its finest tobacco, grown mostly around the village of Kireççiler by Turkish tobacco growers.
		Turks have settled in Western Thrace in the twelfth century.
	www.geocities.com /iskece2000 (192 words)

	Festival of Greek Music and Dance 2001, Music and Dances from Macedonia and Thrace
		Chronis Aidonidis, the best-known performer of songs of Thrace, whose reputation and popularity are on a national scale, was born in 1928 in Karoti, near Didymoteichon, Thrace, the son of a priest.
		Thrace, however, was extremely lucky in finding such an important interpreter just as its music was beginning to be disseminated by the mass media.
		Study Centre of Musical Tradition of Thrace, Asia Minor and the Black Sea which is part of the "Enterprise of Cultural Development, Municipality of Alexandroupolis", an autonomous municipal enterprise established in 1988.
	www.ohfs.org /concert2001.htm (2086 words)

	Thrace. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A.D. 46) the province of Thrace, comprising the territory south of the Balkans; the remainder was incorporated into Moesia.
		In 1878, N Thrace was made into the province of Eastern Rumelia; after the annexation (1885) of Eastern Rumelia by Bulgaria (which had gained independence in 1878), the political meaning of the term Thrace became restricted to its southernmost part, which was still in Turkish hands.
		In the first of the Balkan Wars (1912–13) Turkey ceded to Bulgaria all Western Thrace and the inland half of Eastern Thrace, including Adrianople, but after its defeat in the Second Balkan War (1913), Bulgaria retroceded all Thrace east of the Maritsa to Turkey.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/Thrace.html (753 words)

	ATMG - Australian Turkish Media Group - Minorities in Greece
		In the 1990’s the problem in Western Thrace became more serious when those who claimed to be Turkish were imprisoned, deprived from their properties, dismissed from their jobs and expelled from citizenship on various pretexts.
		In most of the schools in Western Thrace belonging to the minorities the various grades have their classes together in few classrooms that are available.
		The Turkish minority, that is of considerable importance in Western Thrace because of its population, is not able to carry this importance to the political field.
	www.atmg.org /MinoritiesGreece.html (3895 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Western Thrace
		When Bulgaria invaded Western Thrace as one of the Axis Powers during World War Two, it further changed the demographics by arresting the region's Jews and deporting them to death camps administered by Germany.
		The Via Egnatia motorway (which is planned to be completed by 2008) which will pass through Western Thrace, is a promise for further development of the region.
		Western Thrace and in particular the Rhodope mountains, its northern mountainous part, is home to one of the two surviving brown bear (species Ursus arctos) populations in Greece (the other is in the Pindus mountains, in central Greece).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Western_Thrace (1137 words)

	Greece
		The Muslim population, concentrated in western Thrace with small communities in Rhodes, Kos, and Athens, is composed mainly of ethnic Turks but also includes Pomaks and Roma.
		The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which is still in force, gives Muslims in western Thrace the right to maintain social and charitable organizations ("wakfs") and provides for muftis (Islamic judges and religious leaders with limited civic responsibilities) to render religious judicial services.
		Some Muslims, especially in western Thrace, reportedly attended high school in Turkey; places in Turkish language secondary schools are no longer assigned by lottery, as the number of those wanting to attend has been less than the places available.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm?docid=5653 (4440 words)

	THE TURKS OF WESTERN THRACE
		This report examines the situation of the ethnic Turkish minority of Thrace, a region of Greece.
		In 1923, under the Treaty of Lausanne, the Turkish minority of Thrace was granted a wide array of rights to ensure protection of their religion, language, culture, and equality before the law.
		Greece only accepts the existence of a Muslim”; minority in Thrace and aggressively prosecutes and bans organizations and individuals who seek to call themselves “Turkish.” While it is indeed true that much of the minority is of mixed ethnic origins, it overwhelmingly claims an ethnic Turkish identity and wants to be referred to as such.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/greece (1274 words)

	Greek Thrace Minorities
		However, Turkish Muslim sources from Western Thrace claim a total of 100,000 to 120,000 Turkish-speaking Muslims in Western Thrace and most observers estimate between 100,000 and 120,000 Muslims out of a total population for Western Thrace of some 360,000 recorded in the census of 1971.
		Additionally it is alleged that the authorities are attempting to disperse the minority by moving unemployed Turks and Pomaks to other areas, where once registered they are unable to return to Western Thrace, and are pressured under pain of dismissal to change their names to Greek ones.
		The authorities have also prohibited the use of the adjective "Turkish" in titles denoting associations etc. and the Turkish Teachers Association in Western Thrace was closed by order of Komotini court on 20 March 1986, a decision upheld by the Athens High Court on 28 July 1987.
	www.armory.com /~thrace/back.htm (1872 words)

	ATMG - Greek question
		The population of Western Thrace is approximately 360,000.
		Western Thrace is surrounded by Bulgaria and Rodop Mountains in the north, Turkey and Meric (Evros) River in the east, the Aegean Sea in the south and Karasu (Nestos) River in the west.
		The territory of Western Thrace, consisting of the provinces of Gumulcine (Komotini), Iskece (Xanthi) and Dedeagac (Alexandroupolis), extends from east to west as a narrow strip in the north-eastern part of Greece.
	www.atmg.org /GreekProblem.html (16524 words)

	Western Thrace Turkish minority starts new education year with problems
		ANKARA - The Western Thrace Turkish minority started the new education year with lots of problems that couldn't be solved for years.
		Western Thrace Turkish Teachers Association launched a proclamation due to the beginning of the new education year.
		It was stated that the income coming from the foundations could not be used for the minority schools' needs because the foundations were managing by people who are not thought fit by the minorities, and added that some financial aid extended by the government were used as a "publicity" purpose in the European forum.
	www.puk.org /web/htm/news/nws/news030919a.html (279 words)

	European HR Court - Ahmet Sadik v. Greece
		Lastly, by describing the Muslim minority of Thrace as the 'Turkish minority' rather than the 'Greek minority of Muslim faith', he provoked and incited the citizens, mainly on the Muslim side, to reciprocal discord and thus disturbed the public peace of the citizens of Thrace.
		For the Muslim minority of Western Thrace the date was significant as the anniversary of events which had taken place two years before, in 1988.
		It is of importance to note that this conviction was exclusively based on the applicant's repeatedly referring to the Muslim minority in Western Thrace as "Turkish": the remainder of the contents of the pamphlet was not taken into consideration.
	www.minelres.lv /coe/court/AhmetSadik.htm (9628 words)

	Greek policy on Western Thrace thawing, but questions remain DTP stalls ambassadorial appointments US warns of ...
		Turkish sources in Western Thrace agree that the gravest problem is Greece's obstructions (including legal regulations) in the proper education of the Turkish minority despite a number of international and bilateral agreements between Greece and Turkey, stipulating that the minorities can freely open their own schools and give education in their own languages.
		When put on the general axis of the Turco-Greek relations through the years, the problem of Western Thrace could not be assessed separately from the bilateral hostilities.
		Western Thracian people are not very optimistic due to a multitude of broken promises in the past.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=5855 (4487 words)

	Thrace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Homeric Thrace was vaguely defined, and stretched from the River Vardar in the west to the Hellespont and Black Sea in the east.
		The Catalogue of Ships mentions three separate contingents from Thrace: Thracians led by Acamas and Peiros, from Aenus; Cicones led by Euphemus, from southern Thrace, near Ismarus; and from the city of Sestus, on the Thracian (northern) side of the Hellespont, which formed part of the contingent led by Asius.
		In addition to the tribe that Homer calls Thracians, ancient Thrace was home to numerous other tribes, such as the Edones, Bisaltes, Cicones, and Bistones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thrace (2112 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Muslims in Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While they are still forced to identify their religion on their identity cards, the way other Muslims do, and are subject to the same forms of discrimination, they do not enjoy the same protections under the Treaty of Lausanne.
		Today, while Turks do play an important role in local politics in western Thrace, their participation in national politics is limited.
		Turks are primarily represented by the Western Thrace Solidarity Association.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=35001 (1293 words)

	Honoring the Lausanne Treaty
		As to the western border, both eastern and western Thrace was Turkish, and Turkey’s general goal was to incorporate them into its borders.
		The agreement was that, the populations will be exchanged with the exception of those in Western Thrace and in Istanbul, and their property will be transferred to the respective government.
		The Treaty consists of the Peace Treaty, the Agreement on the Status of the Straits, the Agreement regarding the Western Thrace Border, the Agreement regarding the Judicial Competence, the Trade Agreement, the Agreement regarding the Exchange of Turkish and Greek Populations, the Turco-Greek Agreement regarding the release of the Interned Civilians and the War Prisoners.
	www.ataturksociety.org /asa/voa/lozan.html (2031 words)

	Problems of Western Thrace Turkish minority presented to PACE
		I hope the reciprocity principle is not going to dominate the content of the report and it is not going to have the same consequence of the former reports on Western Thrace Turkish minority as they were forgotten and shelved.
		Representatives of ABTTF had the opportunity to give the documents that present the activities of ABTTF; the Western Thrace Turkish minority in Greece and the report Legalized Racism: Expatriation Applications on the bases of 19th Article of the Greek Citizenship Law and Problems of Victimsto Terry Davis.
		Terry Davis listened to the problems of the Western Thrace Turkish minority carefully and he could not keep his confusion when he learned that the unfair application of the Article 19 of Greek Citizenship Law was only in practice for the minority members that did not have Greek origin.
	www.florina.org /html/2006/western_thrace_turkish_minority.html (800 words)

	The Miracle - A True Story: Pages 121 and 122
		The region was inundated with Turkish agents who, whether as employees of the Turkish Consulate in Komotini or as teachers or clerics posted to serve in Western Thrace, systematically incited a nationalist fervour amongst the Muslim population.
		Under the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne signed between Eleftherios Venizelos and Kemal Ataturk in 1923, it was agreed that the approximately 80,000 Muslims living in Western Thrace would remain in Greece, and that roughly 120,000 of the 315,000 Christian Greeks living in Constantinople, Imvros and Tenedos would stay in Turkey.
		By 1993, seventy years later, the number of Muslims in Western Thrace, many of whom had "acquired" a Turkish consciousness as a result of Turkish propaganda, had increased to 150,000, while the number of Greeks in Turkey had dwindled to only 5,000.
	www.greece.org /genocide/books/miracle/page121-122.html (528 words)

	Turkish Daily News, 96-05-07
		Lawyer Burhanettin and#152;smail, general secretary of the Western Thracian Turks Solidarity Association which organized the two day international congress, said that this decision of the congress will be a historical turning point in the western Thrace problem.
		It was also decided upon to invite leading figures of the Western Thrace Turkic minority to unite in a single political framework and so better represent the community in the Greek political environment.
		Burhanettin and#152;smail, general secretary of the Western Thrace Turks Solidarity Association, evaluating the results of the congress said that the main aim of the congress was integrating the Western Thrace Turks who had been spread over the world.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/trkn/1996/96-05-07.trkn.html (3152 words)

	Alexandroupolis - SkyscraperCity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ancient Thrace was covered with forest: mineral deposits, particularly of gold, made the region a coveted possession.
		Alexandrouolis and this part of Thrace, having been part of the route of various armies and the site of battles, was abandoned in later years, up to the time that it became part of the Ottoman Empire.
		The Treaty of Neuilly (27 November 1919) required the ceding of Western Thrace from Bulgaria to Greece.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=245371 (2280 words)

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