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1915 October 5
 
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French and British troops land at Salonika and push north to relieve Serbia     
1916 June 27
 
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Greece joins the Allies by declaring war on Bulgaria     
1918 September
 
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The Allies, with Serb troops in the vanguard, press north from Salonika into Serbia     
1919
 
   
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey      
1922
 
   
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey      
c. 1935
 
   
A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition      
1940 October28
 
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Italian troops cross the Albanian border in the hope of a blitzkrieg against Greece       
1941
 
    
Greek soprano Maria Callas sings her first Tosca, in the opera house in Athens       
1941  April 7-28
 
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German troops move on from Yugoslavia into Greece, driving a small British force from the mainland across the sea to Crete       
1941  May
 
   
German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle