An exhibition presenting the hitherto mostly unknown pages of history of Armenian sports in Ottoman Turkey opened at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan on Tuesday.

The display called “Armenian Sport in the Ottoman Empire” features photographs of sportsmen and sport groups in Western Armenia in the early 20th century, issues of the first sport periodical in the Ottoman Empire “Marmnamarz”.

Museum Director Hayk Demoyan, who conceived the idea, says that last year he discovered all issues of “Marmnamarz” at the museum’s library and as a historian was also interested in the subjects of nationalism in sports and sport competition inside the Ottoman Empire and most of all he was interested in the combination of sport and genocide.