Sokol

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Sokol is a Czech-based gymnastics and physical education movement and organization that became a key force in promoting national identity, civic values, and mass fitness across Central Europe.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf gymnastics organization
national revival movement
physical education movement
countryOfOrigin Czech Republic NERFINISHED
Czech lands
foundedBy Jindřich Fügner NERFINISHED
Miroslav Tyrš NERFINISHED
foundedIn Prague NERFINISHED
hasKeyConcept civic virtue
collective exercise
discipline
national identity
hasMainActivity civic education
gymnastics
mass fitness
physical education
youth education
hasNotableEvent first Slet in 1882
hasNotableMember Edvard Beneš NERFINISHED
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk NERFINISHED
hasPart Czech Sokol Organization NERFINISHED
local Sokol units
regional Sokol associations
headquartersLocation Prague NERFINISHED
ideology Czech nationalism
civic patriotism
pan-Slavism
inception 1862
influenced Czech national movement
formation of Czechoslovakia
inspiredBy German Turnverein movement NERFINISHED
ancient Greek ideals of physical culture
languageOfWorkOrName Czech
motto A sound mind in a sound body
movementType turner movement
nameMeaning falcon in Czech
operatesIn Croatia NERFINISHED
Czech Republic NERFINISHED
Poland NERFINISHED
Serbia NERFINISHED
Slovakia NERFINISHED
Slovenia NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
opposedBy Austro-Hungarian authorities NERFINISHED
Communist regime in Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED
Nazi regime NERFINISHED
organizes Slets NERFINISHED
mass gymnastics festivals
reestablished after 1989 Velvet Revolution
symbol falcon
wasBanned after 1948 Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia

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