Evangelos Zappas (1800–1865) was a Greek businessman and financier.-1... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ...

He was born in Epirus in 1800 and moved to Bucharest in 1831. In 1859, he succeeded in organizing the Zappian Olympic Games in Greece as a combination of agricultural, industrial, and athletic competitions. Those Games were not held again during Zappas's lifetime, but due in large part to his bequeathing a large part of his fortune to future editions of the Games, they were held again in 1870, 1875, and 1889. Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the province of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and... -1... Bucharest is situated on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River, which flows into the Argeş River, a tributary of the Danube. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Zappas's Games were a part of Pierre de Coubertin's inspiration for the modern Olympic movement, which resulted in the current format of the Olympic Games. The Zappeion in Athens was named after him. Baron Pierre de Coubertin Baron Pierre de Coubertin (January 1, 1863-September 2, 1937), born as Pierre de Frédy, was a French pedagogue and historian, but is best known as the founder of the modern Olympic Games. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... The Zappeion was a sporting arena in Athens, Greece used for the fencing events at the 1896 Summer Olympics. ... The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west Athens (Greek: Αθήνα Athína IPA ) is the capital of Greece and of the Attica prefecture of Greece. ...

Sources

• Olympics Through Time
• Athens2004 History