Rules for From Here to Here
courtesy of Cheryl Pappademas Berman This is a simple pencil‑and‑paper path game played by Aromanian (Vlach) families. The board is a rectangle of 20 hand‑drawn dots arranged in 5 columns by 4 rows on a sheet of paper. Two players take turns: one chooses a starting dot and a target dot for the other, and ...
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Rules for the card game Xeri
Xeri is a fishing card game similar to dondonets. These rules came to us from Cheryl Berman. Xeri is a two-player Greek fishing-style card game using a 52-card deck where players capture cards by matching the rank of the top card on a central pile. Players aim to capture the entire pile using matching cards ...
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Rules for the card game Dondonets
In the Balkans, this game, also referred to as Tabinet (or Tablić or Tablanet), is a fishing game using the now standard 52 card deck (no Jokers). This game is frequently played to help children learn to count and add, and as a foundation for other basic card games. We have had requests from ...
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The Greek Merchants of Moschopolis
by Konstantina D. Karakosta Abstract Moschopolitans, the residents of Moschopolis, enjoyed remarkable economic growth and prosperity. The first written records, referring to this shift and proving the commercial presence of Moschopolitans in Venice, have already appeared in the 16th century and consist mainly of correspondence. Exports of processed and unprocessed wool and the development of ...
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