Kevinstat
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2006, 10:53:49 PM » |
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Whichever one the Greek Army first entered in the counteroffensive to Mussolini's (sp?) attack on Greece would be my favorite. The one in which the attempted liberation of Albania from facism began. I'll check Wikipedia to see if there is a map of Albanian Qarqes (or whatever the plural of Qarqe is)...
Okay, I'll go with Qarku i Korces (actually Qarku i Korēės in Albanian), as it's capital, Korēė (or Κορυτσά or Korytsį in Greek depending on what alphabet you use) was the first city that is now a Qarqe capital that was captured by the Greek Army. Gjirokastėr, the capital of Qarku i Gjirokastrės, was also captured by the Greeks during their counter-offensive that went beyond where the Italian offensive against Greece began, but I gather from what I read on Wikipedia that Korēė was captured first. Vlorė (Greek Αυλώνα/Avlóna or Italian Valona was never captured by the Greeks, and it was a city Winston Churchill in his recorded letters was very concerned that the Greeks capture as I guess he figured that would have helped Greece be more secure in that front at least, so I won't choose Qarku i Vlorės as my favorite Qarqe even though Greece seemed to penetrate furthest into Albania from the Greek border within that Qarqe.
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