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Which country do you most strongly associate with martial arts? If you said Asia, that’s understandable. After all, Asia was the continent that gave birth to many of the most popular fighting arts in the world.

From Judo to Jiu Jitsu, Karate to Taekwondo, the list of hand-to-hand combat and fighting styles that came from Asia seem endless.

Did you know however that possibly one of the oldest martial arts in the world comes from Greece and not from Asia? It’s called Pankration and in addition to having influenced many fighting styles all over the world, the art is still being practiced by many aficionados to this very day.

In any case, the Greek martial art still exists at least partly through the techniques used in these newer martial arts, and efforts are being made to get it accepted into the Olympic games once again in the future.