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  • Exposition "The Armenian Sports In The Ottoman Empire" Opens At Arme

    EXPOSITION "THE ARMENIAN SPORTS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE" OPENS AT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM-INSTITUTE

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=116894
    Se p 22, 2008

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 2, ARMENIANS TODAY - NOYAN TAPAN. An exposition
    "The Armenian Sports in the Ottoman Empire" opens in the temporary
    show room of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute on September 2. It
    includes about 70 photos, documents and periodicals that present the
    history of the formation of sport clubs and football teams in the
    Ottoman Empire before 1915.

    According to a report of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute,
    Armenian sport clubs and sportsmen made a significant contribution
    to the development of sports in the Ottoman Empire: there were about
    100 Armenian sport clubs in the empire.

    Armenian Olympic Games were organized in Constantinople in 1911-1914.

    "Gymnast" sports newspaper (editor Shavarsh Krisian) was published
    in that period, which was the first periodical on sports in the
    Ottoman Empire.

    Two Armenian sportsmen, Vahram Papazian and Mkrtich Mkrian took part
    in the 5th International Olympic Games in Stockholm in the summer of
    1912, representing the empire for the first time at Olympic Games.

    In 1915-1920, many Armenian sportsmen became victims of the genocide
    and the majority of sport clubs stopped functioning.
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