Kavala

The authorities also confiscated Greek business property and gave it to Bulgarian colonists.

In the town of Kavala, for example, over 700 shops and other enterprises were expropriated.

Large numbers of Greeks were expelled and others were deprived of the right to work by a licensed system that banned the practice of a trade or profession without the express permission of the occupation government, end quote.

So that gives you an idea of, you know, what it was like to be in this kind of Greek occupied zone, occupied by the Bulgarians, right? So it seems here the Bulgarians initially attempted to have more of a carrot-heavy approach, right? but saw it wasn't working and went very heavy on the stick and are, yeah, being quite repressive.

which was very, very, very helpful, like very helpful to record those things along the way.

I did a lot of like drawing of things on the road, a lot of sketching and some of those, like there was an aqueduct in Kavala in Greece, just beautiful, beautiful structure.

And there's a moment in the book where like, It was one of these times when I got to Kavala, I was like, okay, now I am – it was a moment where I was making my route up on the fly.

I had one plan, and then I decided, no, instead of – I'm going to go through northern Greece, and I just kind of picked this stop.

I was like, I think I can get there on this bus ride today.

King Constantine II thoroughly blindsided that April morning was forced under extreme duress to swear in the Junta cabinet.

He later attempted to regain control by launching a counter-coup from the northern city of Kavala on December 13, 1967.

Issuing royal decrees from a regional outpost while the military firmly occupied the capital was a highly optimistic strategy.

The essential military commands he relied upon simply left him on read.