Edirne Kirkpinar
Oil Wrestling Championship 2009
( 29 JUNE -
05 JULY 2009 )
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There
are several rumours about starting of historical 639rd Kirkpinar
Wrestling festival.The mostly known one is as follow:
During the campaign made by Orhan gazi in 1346 in line of
invading Rumeli, his brother Süleyman Pasha with his
40 soldiers attacked onto Domuzhisar which was under possession
of Byzantium,and invades the city. After invasion of other
castles, 40 people frontier unit returned and had a break
in Samona which is within borders of Greece at present. 40
soldiers started wrestling there. After hours of wrestling
two brothers named Ali and Selim could not beat each other.
Later on on a Hýdrelez day, the same couple started
wrestling in Ahýköy field near Edirne again. Although
they wrestled for a day, they could not beat each other, and
continued wrestling all night under light of torches and candles.
But they died there at the end. Their friends buried them
under a tree of fig there in and left. After years, when they
went there they saw a fountain with abundant water on the
place where the tombs of brothers were. Afterwards the people
named this place "KIRKPINAR (FOURTY FOUNTAINS)".The
field within Samona village of Greece is the original Kirkpinar.
After Balkan wars and World War I Kirkpinar wrestling was
organised in the location called "Virantekke" located
between Edirne and Mustafapaþa road. After Republic,
in 1924 the wrestling organisations were held in Sarayiçi
part of Edirne. Kirkpinar wrestling competitions were held
by aghas until 1928.
