History: The 1910s
1911
- Creation of "Maccabi Defense Groups" in Jaffa
- Opening of the first Gymnastic Hall in the Herzlia Gymnasium in Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Foundation of "Maccabi Zagreb" (Yugoslavia)
1913
- First Mass Display of Jewish Gymnasts at the Xth Zionist Congress in Vienna, with a participation of 1450 gymnasts
- Reorganization of the Juedische Turnerschaft in the framework of Territorial Organizations (Germany, Austria-West, including Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia; Austria East, including Bukovina and Galicia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Maccabi Eretz Yisrael including Beirut, Lebanon)
- Foundation of "Maccabi Czernowitz" (Bukovina)
1914
- Foundation of the "Juedischer Turnverein Basel" (Switzerland)
1915
- Maccabim, are expelled by the Turkish authorities from Eretz Yisrael, volunteer for active service with the British Forces in the Middle East
- Their "Mule Corps" unit participates in fighting at Gallipoli (MarmaraStraits, Turkey)
- Foundation of "Maccabi Warsaw"
1916
- German and Austro-Hungarian Military Occupation Authorities permit full and open Maccabi activities in Poland (formerly Russia)
- Foundation of "Maccabi Moscow" and, until 1923, strong Maccabi activities in Russia with main centers in Moscow and Odessa
1917-1918
- Maccabim volunteer for active service with the British Forces under Field Marshal Allenby and serve in the Jewish Battalion of the "Kings Rifles"
1918-1919
- Maccabi Clubs in Switzerland and in Czechoslovakia set up their own Maccabi Territorial Organizations
- Foundation of "Maccabi Bucharest" (Romania)
- First post war "Maccabi Eretz Yisrael" Convention in Jerusalem (Kinus Maccabi Eretz Yisrael)
1920
- Foundation K.S.C. Maccabi Antwerp (Belgium)
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