World War II
For more details on this topic, see Principality of Pindus.During the Axis Occupation of Greece, the Italians tried to set up an autonomous Aromanian state in Northern Greece, the "Principality of Pindus". The leaders of the Principality were Alchiviad Diamandi di Samarina (Prince Alchibiades I, 1941–1942), Regent Nicola Matushi (1942–1943) and Count Gyula Cseszneky, Baron of Milvány (Voivode Julius I, 1943). The principality failed to enlist the support of local Vlachs, and ceased to exist after the Italian capitulation in 1943.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)