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Due to the pressure of migration and to solve the question of landless farmers, the Venizelos administration passed a Land Reform in 1917. It also offered the government a chance to secure its rights on the former Ottoman lands in Thessaly. According to the new law, one-fifth of the çiftliks shall be national property. The law further provides that the Greek Government is authorized to expropriate çiftliks at their pre-WWI value. While the lands of the Ottoman subjects absent from Greece were sequestered, British subjects applied British authorities to support their cases. Depending on British documents, this study first claims diverse issues such as the influence of Britain in Greece following WWI, the operations of the British legations in the region, the post-Ottoman statue of old çiftliks, the Levantine presence in the region, and land values in postwar Salonica constituting a single pattern that represents the transition from the empire to nation-states. Second, the study aims to expose how Britain, besides its military presence, tried to protect its economic interests in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After World War I, the balances between the Entente States aimed at reshaping the Balkan geography in line with their political, military, economic, social and cultural concerns led to an increase in the influence of Greece in occupied Thrace. The Allied Powers, which signed the armistice of Salonica with Bulgaria and the Mudros Armistice with Turkey, primarily prepared the military infrastructure and made it easier for Greece to feel its influence in Western and Eastern Thrace. In the process of the Treaty of Sèvres, the Allied Powers gave approval for the military occupation of Thrace by Greece. Meanwhile The Allied Powers, which subsequently imposed the treaty of Neuilly on Bulgaria and the Treaty of Sèvres on Turkey, handed over Thrace to Greece officially, with certain conditions and obligations under the Treaty concerning Thrace signed at Sèvres. In this study, which aims to analyze the factors and variables affecting the transfer of Thrace to Greece by the Allied Powers which is of great importance to the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Straits, Black Sea and Anatolia with the Balkans. together with the British archival documents and the treaties texts, will be used. British archival documents offer a different perspective on the approaches of the Allied Powers to Thrace and their approach to the Greek operation during the Sèvres process. It is expected that the treaty texts signed with the Treaty of Sèvres and which are not mentioned much in the literature, are expected to make a significant contribution to this study by revealing the conditions and obligations of Thrace that were transferred to Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Phanariot scholar Skarlatos Vizantios (1798-1878) wrote the first modern Greek dictionary, which was published in 1835. This article provides a general overview of Greek lexicography and language studies in ancient Greek while also mentioning medieval, Byzantine, and modern Greek lexicography. Following this approach, we examine the contributions of Vizantios to Greek lexicography and his dictionary To Leksiko tis Kath'imas Ellinikis Dialektu (1835) lexicographically with emphasis on micro and macro structure. The other issues addressed are the loaning process, Turkish loanwords (Turkisms) in Greek, and relevant studies conducted specifically in Greece. A total of 581 Turkish loanwords are identified in the dictionary. These words are categorized under conceptual fields such as human, administration/organization, plant, animal, food/nutrition, materials, goods, space, and modes of transportation. Over a period of more than 180 years, approximately 310 words have been preserved in the Greek vocabulary and appear in current Greek dictionaries as keywords. Although phonological differences raise difficulties on the grounds that Greek and Turkish belong to different language families, Turkish loanwords seem adapted to Greek morphology and are intertwined with Greek literature, history, and social and cultural life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]