|
Evidence for Mangala (Greek)
2 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2301
Type Ethnography
Location Greek World
Date 1748-01-01 - 1776-12-31
Rules Rows of holes. Pieces are sown.
Content Account of Pierre-Auguste Guys, who traveled to the Ottoman Empire in 1748 and reported on the lives of the Greeks living under Ottoman rule: "Ils le jouent avec des petit coquillages, et dans une boëte où chaque joueur a ses cases devant lui; ils l'appellent le Mangala." Guys 1776: 222.
Confidence 100
Source Guys, P.-A. 1776. Voyage littéraire de la grèce. Paris: Veuve Duchesne.
Id DLP.Evidence.2302
Type Ethnography
Location 44°34'24.30"N, 33°40'36.66"E 41° 0'41.52"N, 28°58'58.84"E
Date 1799-01-01 - 1801-12-31
Rules Two rows of holes. Multiple counters in each hole.
Content Account from Edward Daniel Clarke, who traveled to Balaclava, Crimea: "We observed a game here which was quite new to us: the Greeks call it Mangala. We saw it afterwards in Constantinople. It is played with a board having two rows of parallel partitions: into each of these was placed a certain number of small shells..." Clarke 1801: 230.
Confidence 100
|
