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Title The last Ottomans : the Muslim minority of Greece, 1940-1949 / Kevin Featherstone [and others]
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 343 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, color maps
Series New perspectives on South-East Europe
New perspectives on South-East Europe.
Contents 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Shifting balances in the Balkans: the international context prior to WWII -- 3.3. Western Thrace prepares for war -- 3.4. The Muslim community of Western Thrace and the outbreak of war -- 3.5. Changing loyalties: the battle(s) for Turkey's neutrality -- 3.6. Conclusion -- 4. Belomorie -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The arrival of the Bulgarian administration -- 4.3. Accounts of Bulgarian repression -- 4.4. The economic impact of the Bulgarian occupation -- 4.5. Wartime population movements -- 4.6. Education and religion as vehicles of Bulgarian nationalism -- 4.7. Smaller minority groups in wartime Western Thrace -- The Armenian community -- The Roma community -- The Jewish community -- 4.8. Conclusions -- 5. Strategies for Survival -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The onset of resistance activity in occupied Greece -- 5.3. The activity of EAM-ELAS in Western Thrace -- 5.4. The activity of the nationalist resistance groups in Western Thrace -- 5.5. Muslim collaboration with the Bulgarian forces
Summary A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-332) and index
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Subject Muslims -- Greece -- Thrace, Western -- History -- 20th century
Islamic studies -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Greece -- Turkey.
International relations -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Greece -- Turkey.
European history -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Greece -- Turkey.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Greece -- Turkey.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Society.
Diplomatic relations
Ethnic relations
Muslims
Greece.
Turkey.
Muslims.
Ethnicity.
Occupation.
Civil wars.
International relations.
History.
Muslimer -- sociala aspekter -- Grekland -- 1900-talet.
SUBJECT Thrace, Western (Greece) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Greece -- History -- Occupation, 1941-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057103
Greece -- History -- Civil War, 1944-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057104
Greece -- Foreign relations -- Turkey
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Greece
Subject Greece
Greece -- Western Thrace
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Featherstone, Kevin.
ISBN 9780230294653
0230294650
9781349312832
1349312835