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- tzykanisterion (Gr****: τζυκανιστήριον) was a stadium for playing the tzykanion (τζυκάνιον, the Gr**** name for Chovgan, from Middle Persian čaukān, čōkān)...
- Translated by John Wortley. p. 190. [Alexander] came down to play ball (tzykanion). A pain arose in his entrails which had been overloaded with an excess...
- sporting. A Persian version of Polo introduced by the Crusaders called Tzykanion was pla**** by the nobility and urban aristocracy in major cities during...
- called it tzykanion, which derives from the Middle Persian word. During the reign of Theodosius II, the Roman imperial court started playing tzykanion in the...
- Little is recorded of John's reign, except that he died while playing tzykanion, a variant of polo fashionable among the Byzantine nobility, when he fell...
- Byzantine Empire at an early date. A tzykanisterion (stadium for playing tzykanion, the Byzantine name for polo) was built by Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450)...
- June 6 – Emperor Alexander III dies of exhaustion while playing the game tzykanion (Byzantine name for polo). He is succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew Constantine...
- June 6 – Emperor Alexander III dies of exhaustion while playing the game tzykanion (Byzantine name for polo). He is succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew Constantine...