Who organised the first Olympic games ?

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Who organised the first Olympic games ?

http://www.mn.mk/istorija/8555-Koj-gi-organizira-prvite-olimpiski-igri

Google Translator:-
IN HONOR OF victory over Persia and removal of Persian occupation on Macedonia, Alexander I organize the Olympic Games on the north side of the Holy Mount Olympus ... OF THESE Olympics Alexander I invites all nations who took part in FIGHTING Persia thus these games were the first international games organized by the Macedonians.



Bill Alexander ORGANIZER IS ONE OF MACEDONIA ruler moments OF SBETATA Mount Olympus , the Macedonian territory BO ... Exactly on the north side of the Holy Mount Olympus ... Mountain bordering AND NATIONS THAT CO Thessaly were Helen , NO CITIES COUNTRIES, BUT monarchy with the monarch , ...

From here THEORY THAT THESE GAMES WERE Hellenic ( Greek) is incorrect and NOT logical, since they did not even exist , because FUTURE Hellenic territories were under TERMOBILI ... UNDER TESALIJA , Aetolia and AKARANIJA ... IF YOU WERE ONLY THEN WILL Hellenic held their territory NOT IN NO Hellenic countries such as Macedonia , .. SETA theory for the Olympics as just Hellenic invented , inaccurate and illogical.

While Macedonian ruler Vasileoc - BAS Ile OS Archelaus continued the tradition started HEGOVIOT great - GRANDFATHER Macedonian ruler Vasileoc - BAS Ile OS Alexander I and introduced holiday Olympia , who was a religious holiday in athletic competitions in honor of the victory over the Persians , the Ile - God of the Sun and the Temple of muses in Ile - God of the Sun. The greatest athletes and umentnici been collected in one spot for this event on the north side of the Holy Mount Olympus . Taka uchestvototo with more people sporting event he had an international character .



Archelaus I - a man of culture

After the collapse of the Macedonian monarchy, the Olympic Games were banned by the Romans'' for maintaining law and order.''

Olympic Games 1896 were recovered fraudulently Re ... That the ancient Olympic games were'' GREEK''. How is it possible? When Greece at that time did not exist and had been maintained on Macedonian territory, ORGANIZERS WERE A Macedonian rulers.

Taken from History of Macedonia

[Gocka]

Very interesting indeed

[Sweet Sixteen]

In case you are confused by the above article the following link may help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympics_in_various_places

[George S.]

I knew this already that the Macedonians organised the Olympics.The word ol or il means sun.Th e worshipping of the sun.As someone said it was Macedonian territory.The greeks going on about how it was all grerek is just plain garbage.Even the mountain mt Olympus named as ol impic sun mountain.THE GREEKS CANNOT EVEN ADMIT TO their celebrating the Macedonian festival.

[Gocka]

In case you are confused by the above article the following link may help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient...various_places

You really like wikipedia dont you? I wonder why?

[Sweet Sixteen]

You really like wikipedia dont you? I wonder why?

Well, for instance Wikipedia can help those who confuse Olympia and Olympus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Greece

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus

If the author of the above article could use internet he wouldn't have written it. What makes the (very) first Olympic Games (776 BC) very important for Greeks is that they used this occasion to count time, the way we use today the birth of Christ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games

[Daskalot]

Well, for instance Wikipedia can help those who confuse Olympia and Olympus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Greece

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus

If the author of the above article could use internet he wouldn't have written it. What makes the (very) first Olympic Games (776 BC) very important for Greeks is that they used this occasion to count time, the way we use today the birth of Christ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games

Hello Thessa I see that you have found your way back here. So for how long will you stay this time around?

[Sweet Sixteen]

Hello Thessa I see that you have found your way back here. So for how long will you stay this time around?

More than 191 posts, so that I break my record.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Very interesting indeed

It could have been if the article actually provided sources to back up its assertions. But as it stands, it is more vague and misleading than anything else. The Macedonians under Archelaus I (not Alexander I) did develop their own Macedonian Olympics, but the games at Olympia in the Peloponnese were celebrated from an earlier period. What irritates me about such 'articles' is that the absence of corroboration encourages ignorant people to write things like this:

THE GREEKS CANNOT EVEN ADMIT TO their celebrating the Macedonian festival.

Granted, there are some equally 'fantastic' articles written by Greeks and others. But that doesn't mean we should stoop to such levels. Macedonians need to be more critical, and smarter.

[Gocka]

It could have been if the article actually provided sources to back up its assertions. But as it stands, it is more vague and misleading than anything else. The Macedonians under Archelaus I (not Alexander I) did develop their own Macedonian Olympics, but the games at Olympia in the Peloponnese were celebrated from an earlier period. What irritates me about such 'articles' is that the absence of corroboration encourages ignorant people to write things like this:

Granted, there are some equally 'fantastic' articles written by Greeks and others. But that doesn't mean we should stoop to such levels. Macedonians need to be more critical, and smarter.

It doesn't mean that there weren't any sources but you are absolutely right. Using the same tactics as our fabulous neighbors is not the route we want to go.

I was a bit confused about the article because correct me if I am wrong but, Macedonians were not permitted to participate in the Olympic games at Olympia because they were not greek correct? Alexander the Great was only allowed to participate because he traced his lineage back to Hercules thus making him "greek".

So these were a different Olympic games or is that also not clear?

[Soldier of Macedon]

It doesn't mean that there weren't any sources.....

There were no sources provided in the article. Check the link.

I was a bit confused about the article because correct me if I am wrong but, Macedonians were not permitted to participate in the Olympic games at Olympia because they were not greek correct?

The first Macedonian alleged to have participated is Alexander I. I say alleged, because, although Alexander apparently tied in first place with another competitor during a particular event, his name does not appear on any of the victor's lists at the Olympic Games, nor does that of any other Macedonian until well into the reign of Alexander the Great. And in the period between Alexander I to Phillip II, no Macedonian is connected to the Olympics, which is why Archelaus created his own Macedonian Olympics.

Alexander the Great was only allowed to participate because he traced his lineage back to Hercules thus making him "greek".

It was Alexander I, not Alexander III (known later as the Great). Even if one were to accept the story about Alexander I and the Olympics, the Hellenes of the time bitterly contested his inclusion. The fact that he even had to 'prove' his lineage speaks volumes. It was only when he (or Herodotus or both) apparently manufactured a mythical pedigree by misrepresenting Macedonian Argos (around the area of present-day Kostur) with Peloponnesian Argos, thus linking him to Heracles, was he "accepted" (not as a Macedonian, but as a Heraclidae, thus excluding the Macedonian people). Macedonians were accepted in the Olympics probably after Greece was conquered by Macedonia, but then so was the Roman emperor Nero after Greece was conquered by Rome.

So these were a different Olympic games or is that also not clear?

The Macedonian games were held in Dion. They were different to the games held by the Hellenes at Olympia.