The Balkan Basketball Championship, sometimes referred to as the Balkan Basketball Cup or the Balkan Basketball Games, is the defunct competition that was the men's basketball competition added in 1959 to the Balkan Games that started in 1929. The purpose of the "Balkan Games" was to strengthen the relations between the nations of the Balkans region. The Balkan Games were a collection of athletics competitions added to the event over the years.
The first men's basketball competition took place in Bucharest, in 1959. At the time, basketball was considered to be an important activity by the countries that competed in it. The best players from the Balkans region often competed at the tournament. Interest in the championship waned, and it was eventually cancelled. The last basketball tournament was held at Skopje, in 1990.
Βαλκανικό 1979: Τον Γκάλη η Ελλάδα τον «υποδέχθηκε» με χρυσό μετάλλιο Balkan 1979: Gali was "welcomed" by Greece with a gold medal (in Greek)
Εθνική μπάσκετ Σεπτέμβριος 1979 National Basketball September 1979 (in Greek)
H πλούσια… βαλκανική ιστορία Ελλάδας-Βουλγαρίας The rich Balkan history of Greece-Bulgaria (in Greek)
MAKEDONIA newspaper pg4.
October 18, 2023
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