The Orel ("
eagle
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Czech) is a
Moravia-based
Czech youth movement and
gymnastics organization which emerged between 1896–1909 as
Catholic Church-supported competitor of another Czech sport movement
Sokol (founded 1862), oriented more nationalistic and rather anti-Catholic. Orel movement, defining itself as "Christian sport organization", still exists and currently has about 19,000 members. Since 1921 is member of international sport association
FICEP. Party always cooperated in close with
Moravian-Silesian Christian Social Party and later with the
Czechoslovak People's Party
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A similar organization with the same name was organized also in the
Slovene Lands and in
Croatia, where it successfully competed with the local Sokol movement. It was dissolved in the early 1930s by the following dictatorship in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
See also
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Bežigrad Stadium
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Strahov Stadium
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