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Evidence in Greek World

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.2301
Type Ethnography
Game Mangala (Greek)
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.

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