Alka
Overview
Knight
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tournament
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which has been held every first Sunday
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in the month of August
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in town
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of Sinj
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, Croatia
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since 1715, commemorating the victory over Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Empire
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administration. It consists of an equestrian competition, in which various horsemen attempt to aim their lances at a hanging metal ring (alka) at full gallop.
Alka is also the name of the object used in the tournament; it is made of two concentric
Concentric
Concentric objects share the same center, axis or origin with one inside the other. Circles, tubes, cylindrical shafts, disks, and spheres may be concentric to one another...
rings (diameter of inner being 35.1 mm, and 131.7 mm of outer one) connected with three bars 120° apart.
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