dodecannessus

Updated: May 13, 2025

Greece asks for the southern portion of Albania, known as North Epirus; for the whole of Bulgarian Thrace, thus completely barring Bulgaria from the Ægean; for the whole of European Turkey, including the Dardanelles and Constantinople; for the province of Trebizond, on the southern shore of the Black Sea, the Greek inhabitants of which attempted to establish the so-called Pontus Republic; the great seaport of Smyrna, with its 400,000 inhabitants, and a considerable portion of the hinterland, which she has already occupied; the Dodecannessus Islands, of which the largest is Rhodes, off the western coast of Asia Minor, which the Italians occupied during the Turco-Italian War and which they have not evacuated; the cession of Cyprus by England, which has administered it since 1878.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean