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    THE ROLE OF ARMENIAN SPORT IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE

    Panorama.am
    15:27 02/09/2008

    In the summer of 1912 two Armenian sportsmen, Vahram Papazyan and
    Mkrtich Mkryan, took part in the 5th International Olympic Games
    in Stockholm, representing the empire to the Olympics for the first
    time. In 1915 to 1920 innumerable Armenian sportsmen became victim
    of the Genocide, most Armenian sports clubs closed.

    This reveals new details of Armenian history and includes about 70
    photos, documents, periodicals which tell the history of the Armenian
    sport clubs and football teams in the Ottoman Empire until 1915. It
    turned out that in times of Abdul Hamid it was forbidden to appear
    in the public half-naked; that is why the sportsmen could be arrested
    even during a contest. However, the women's sport was also developed
    in that period.

    The number of the Armenian sport clubs in the Ottoman Empire was
    about 100. In 1911 to 1914 the Armenian Olympic Games were held in
    Constantinople. From 1911 to 1914 the Marmnamarz, a sports newspaper
    editor Shavarsh Krisyan, was published which was the first sports
    periodical in the empire.

    Today the exposition headlined "Armenian Sports in the Ottoman Empire"
    opens at the Museum Institute of the Armenian Genocide which will
    last till September 15.

    "The Armenian sport clubs and sportsmen had a significant contribution
    to the history of sports in the Ottoman Empire," the director of
    Museum Institute of the Armenian Genocide Hayk Demoyan said at the
    opening ceremony.

    "Armenian Olympic Games were first held in Istanbul and Turkish
    sportsmen always lost to Armenians. May be this was one of the reasons
    why Turkish people hated Armenians from those times," the historian,
    deputy director of the Museum Institute Suren Maukyan says.

    Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire before total uprooting as
    a consequence of premeditated and state-orchestrated genocide plan
    of the elimination of the Armenian nation on the territory of the
    Ottoman Turkey circa 1915 was among well modernized elements of the
    empire which although the segregationist and discriminative nature
    of the ottomans played significant role in the social, economical
    and cultural life of the empire.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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