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==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
===Sports=== | ===Sports=== | ||
As in Hendalarsk proper, association football is the most popular sport in the Pentapolis. The Pentapolis, however, is not part of the wider Hendalarskara football pyramid, with the sport instead governed by the [[Pentapolitan Football Association]], the FFB ([[Pentapolitan Argot|Argot]] ''Fönferstadscher Fösbal-Bunt''). This separation extends to international football, where the Pentapolis is represented by its own [[Pentapolis national football team|national side]], which has enjoyed considerably less success than its mainland counterpart. Domestic football in the Pentapolis is likewise less globally prominent than the [[Hendalarskaras Bundesliga]], although this has begun to change in recent years with the advent of the [[Pentapolitan Premier League|Fönferstadscher Ensliga]]; exorbitant commercial licensing and TV rights deals have seen clubs in the Ensliga offering far higher wages than are available at any club in the Bundesliga, prompting fears of a "foot drain" out of Hendalarsk proper. | |||
In addition to football, baseball is popular across the Pentapolis, with a proportionally far greater following than on the mainland. This has been bolstered by the Pentapolis' barely-regulated sports gambling industry, and a consequent influx of baseball fans from other countries in Levantia where the sport is likewise popular but gambling on it is far more restricted. The [[Pentapolitan Baseball League]] is not a major player in a continental sense, but enjoys large matchday attendances and some international cultural recognition; this is particularly true of the [[Hukener Kestrels]], the richest, most popular and most successful team in the archipelago. | |||
Beyond terrestrial team sports, sailing is (appropriately for a maritime polity) popular across the Pentapolis, with even relatively déclassé Pentapolitan families often making a point of renting a space in the great anchorages of the archipelago's many natural harbours. Pentapolitan sailors have a long track record of participation (and success) at the [[Istroyan Games]], where they compete under the Hendalarskara banner due to IIGC regulations, and maintain a friendly and almost entirely one-sided rivalry with their [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] counterparts. Rowing as a sport, however, is not widely practised, as it retains a pronounced cultural stigma due to the role played by, and low status of, oarsmen on galleys during the Pentapolis' early-modern rise to power. This stigma has had little impact on the popularity of martial arts based on ritualised knife-fighting, as they are instead mostly associated with above-decks derring-do. The Pentapolis has also given rise to several prominent fencers such as [[Nadía Sígelman]], although fencing's popularity is mostly limited to the old merchant families of the Pentapolis and their ''nouvelles-riches'' counterparts. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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