Thursday, June 20, 2013

Greek and Romanian oil wrestling


Edirne, in Turkish Thrace, is as close to Greece an Bulgaria as one can get.


Every summer, a one week festival, the Kırkpınar festival is held.  This year the festival runs from July 1 - July 6, 2013.  The oil wrestling championship will be held on July 6 of this year, likely (reports on the date vary on the web).

I'll blog posts on the Kirkpinar championships when hey happen.

Greece and Bulgaria are nearby and have been Turkish provinces in the not-ditant past.

Greece, Romania, Turkey


The Turkic Ottoman Empire:

Oil wrestling is practiced in Greece and Romania.  While we await the grand Turkic event, here are images from those countries.  






.  . . and more recently from Nova Cherna, Bulgaria








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