ZAPPAS

Zappas was a philanthropist who funded the revival of the modern Olympic Games approximately 1,433 years after the ancient Olympic Games was ceased by the Roman Empire. Zappas was born in 1800 in Ottoman-occupied north-western Greece in a village called Lambove, near Tepelene, in northern Epirus (now part of the Girokastra region of Albania). He began a military career as a mercenary soldier in the Ottoman army of Ali Pasha, a local despot, who ruled the region from a fortress in Tepelene. Zappas then joined Markos Botsaris' Souliot Greek resistance forces in the Greek War of Independence... Zappas.org was founded to help correct a historical error since there is a limit to how many times you can hear the same error without doing something about it. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) promotes Baron Pierre de Coubertin as 'the founder of the modern Olympic Games'. All historical references endorsed by the IOC including those at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne do the same. The IOC..

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