At the same time, a huge wave of forced migration went in the other direction: Muslims from the city and its environs were being shipped away to Turkey, under a Greek-Turkish (or more precisely Christian-Muslim) exchange which made both countries ethnically much more homogeneous.
It may yet produce some fireworks on bonuses, but not on any of the deeper issues: a forced wave of equity-raising by European and Japanese firms is highly unlikely.
We didn't think we would be forced to wave at them from our lit oil drums.
The Hammers were forced back by wave after wave of red attacks which came to very little before Luis Boa Morte blazed a shot high and wide from a Nigel Reo-Coker cross.
Wave after wave of bank failures there have forced governments to tighten regulation and supervision, to privatise unwieldy state banks and to open once-pampered institutions to competition.
Van der Sar was equal to Petrov's free-kick, Johan Elmander had a shot blocked by Patrice Evra and the backline, well led by Chris Smalling, was forced to repel a wave of Bolton attacks.
Yet now share prices have slumped and the central bank has been forced to reassure financial markets that a wave of defaults in the sector will not hurt the banks, which have about 7% of their loans to the power industry, mainly to generation firms.
It's been a wintry April for Denver, which has been hit by a wave of snowy weather over the past nine days that forced postponements of games three times.
Politicians in Europe and beyond have been harshly criticized and, in some cases, forced out of office in the wake of a wave of economic woes, including governments and banks' role in contributing to debt and other crises.
At least 30 people died in the Concordia crash, which forced Carnival and other cruise operators to pull marketing just as the key "wave season" for cruise reservations began.
The SSA had been projecting a 15% increase as the first wave of baby boomers hit 62 and attributes the greater than forecast increase to workers being forced into retirement because of their inability to find new jobs.
In a new wave of misery, some of the refugees near the border may find themselves being moved, or forced to flee, elsewhere.
But the second wave, in which Ireland was rescued and fresh doubts were raised about the size of the fund, has forced Mrs Merkel to shift.
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