Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Folk wrestling styles, Mongolian wrestling, Glima, Catch wrestling, Ssireum, Oil wrestling, Collar-and-elbow, Pehlwani, Varzesh-e Bastani, Schwingen, Cornish wrestling, Lutte Traditionnelle, Greek wrestling, Senegalese wrestling, Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling, Canarian wrestling, Kurash, Gouren, Wrestling in Iran, Khmer traditional wrestling, Kabye people, Mukna, Tegumi, Buno, Devon wrestling, Alysh, Karakucak, Lancashire wrestling, Inbuan wrestling, K�r�ş, Scottish Backhold. Excerpt: Mongolian wrestling, known as B�kh (Mongolian: Бөх or Үндэсний бөх), is the folk wrestling style of Mongols in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and other regions. B�kh means "durability". Wrestling is the most important of the Mongolian culture's historic "Three Manly Skills", that also include horsemanship and archery. Genghis Khan considered wrestling to be an important way to keep his army in good physical shape and combat ready. The Manchu dynasty (1646-1911) Imperial court held regular wrestling events, mainly between Manchu and Mongol wrestlers. There are several different versions, Mongolian (in the country of Mongolia and in Tuva of Russia), Buryatian (in the Buryatia of Russia) and Inner Mongolian (in northern China). Cave paintings in the Bayankhongor Province of Mongolia dating back to Neolithic age of 7000 BC show grappling of two naked men and surrounded by crowds. The art of B�kh appears on bronze plates discovered in the ruins of the Xiongnu empire (206 BC-220 AD). Originally, B�kh was a military sport intended to provide mainly strength, stamina and skills training to troops. Genghis Khan (1206-1227) and the all later Emperors of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368) and also the Emperors of later Khanates were keen to support the sport for this reason so wrestling events were included in local festivals, or Naadam. Wrestling be...

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