The son and grandson of immigrants (his father was Hungarian, his maternal grandfather a Jew from Salonica), he advocated affirmative action to build ladders out of the banlieues.
It says it will be taking a 15% stake in the 520km project, which runs from the Caspian to Brindisi in Italy, via Greek city of Salonica and Albania.
After taking the border fortresses, Dušan penetrated deep into Byzantine territory to the gates of Salonica, although he did not achieve lasting success in subduing the cities.
Dušan, arriving before the gates of Salonica, received an unexpected ally in John Cantacuzenus, the late emperor's general, who took up arms against the regents of the young successor, John V Palaeologus, and proclaimed himself emperor.
But the Alhambra in 1492, or the Salonica he remembered from childhood (the great prewar center of Sephardic Jewry, where, he recalled, there were newspapers printed in Hebrew characters), or the Constantinople of the late Byzantine Empire, were... what?
He was born in France but spent his early childhood nomadically, in Beirut, Istanbul, and Salonica, before the family settled down in Algiers.
SALONICA — The King of the Hellenes was assassinated about five o'clock this evening [March 18] while he was taking his usual walk through the town, accompanied merely by an aide-de-camp.
Before giving notice of his recall, the Bulgarian Minister again called upon the Greek government to order the cessation of hostilities and protested against the capture of the Bulgarian detachment at Salonica.
USKUB — Wed [Nov. 6], delayed by censor — The mountain pass of Demir Kapu (the "Iron Gates"), which is considered the key to the road to Salonica, was captured yesterday [Nov. 5] by the Servians, who shelled the Turks out of their strong positions.
John's father was a mining engineer and professor, who at age 17 volunteered with the Serbian Army fighting on the Salonica front and died in 1932.
ATHENS — After twelve hours' fighting, the last Bulgarian detachment garrisoned in the barracks near the Church of St. Demetrius, in Salonica, surrendered this morning to the Greek troops.
