Wikimanqala:Featured article/ week 33

From Wikimanqala

Already in 1917, the Bohnenspiel ("bean game") was called "an old German game" by the game pastor Fritz Jahn who rediscovered it in 1908 while visiting Baron von Stackelberg at his estate in Tardis (Island of Ösel), Estonia. The baron owned a duplicate of the famous mancala set which was a present from the Shah of Persia (probably Aga Mohammed) for Czarinar Catherine the Great (reign 1762-1796), born Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst. The original is today in the art collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. [ + ]

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