The State of Sport in Transylvania and Banat at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Situația sportului în Transilvania și Banat la începutul secolului XX

Summary/Abstract: Sports activity analysis at the level of various populations and areas has become a unique tool to study, understand and probe the past, and the study of sports has begun to concern more and more researchers. The development of the sports movement was one of the important characteristics of the early twentieth century in Romania, and Transylvania and Banat were, from this perspective two of the regions with the greatest importance and influence. In addition to other forms of modernization that have manifested themselves in society, from industrialization to education, the growing importance of sport has been one of the positive realities of Greater Romania, in the first decades of its existence.Considering that in the process of making and developing the sports movement you can see a part of the history of Romania , the purpose of this article is to analyze the situation of clubs in Transylvania and Banat during the 1900-1939 period. In general, I will make a census of the clubs from the two regions, both during the time they were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1900-1918) and also after they became part of the Greater Romania (1919-1939), and I will compare the circumstances with those of the groups in the Old Kingdom. Then, from the perspective of sports regionalism, we will dissect the participation and performances of the clubs from Transylvania and Banat in the competitions of the time at the most important sports of the period, namely football and tennis. In this article I will refer to Transylvania in the extended sense that includes Transylvania, Crișana and Maramureș, and the main source of the unique information presented is the press of the time.

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