Western Thrace kids


  • Photographer
    Stamatis Zoumpourtikoudis
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    11 September 2011

Close to the Bulgarian, Turkish and Greek borders every summer the local people of the Rhodope mountains organize a big festival. This festival has cultural and political issues because it is a muslim festival which in the last decades is sponsored from the Turkey. In this fest a visitor has to drive up to the mountains for an hour in order to see the wrestling games with the pehlivans. Almost all the visitors are local greek citizens with muslim religion which came from the ottoman period. The children have nice time playing and having fun with the wrestling games and the cultural events -folk dance and music concerts.

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