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Moscopole

Moscopole or Voskopoja (Voskopojë; Moscopole, with several other variants; Μοσχόπολις) is a village in Korçë County in southeastern Albania. During the 18th century, it was the cultural and commercial center of the Aromanians. At its peak, in the mid 18th century, it hosted the first printing house in the Ottoman Balkans outside Constantinople, educational institutions and numerous churches. It became a leading center of Greek culture  but also with elements of Albanian and Aromanian culture, all with great influence from Western civilization.

One view attributes the decline of the city to a series of raids by Muslim Albanian bandits. Moscopole was initially attacked and almost destroyed by those groups in 1769 following the participation of the residents in the preparations for a Greek revolt supported by the Russian Empire. Its destruction culminated with the abandoning and destruction of 1788. Moscopole, once a prosperous city, was reduced to a small village by Ali Pasha of Ioannina. According to another view, the city's decline was mainly due to the relocation of the trade routes in central and eastern Europe following these raids. Today Moscopole, known as Voskopojë, is a small mountain village, and along with a few other local settlements is considered a holy place by local Orthodox Christians. It was one of the original homelands of much of the Aromanian diaspora. It has been also nicknamed as "Jerusalem of the Aromanians", "New Athens" or "Arcadia of the Balkans".

In modern times, Aromanians no longer form a majority of the population, with incoming Christian and Muslim Albanians having further settled in the village, especially after World War II. Still, Moscopole has held a key place within Aromanian nationalism, and many Aromanian writers have written about Moscopole in a mythical and utopian way, mourning the city's destruction.

Variations
The town is known as Voskopojë (definite form: Voskopoja) in Albanian. The Aromanian name of the town varies between Moscopole, Moscopoli, Muscopuli, Voscopole, Voscopoli and Voshopole. The Greek name of the town varies between Μοσχόπολις (transliterated into Moschópolis, Moscopolis, Moskopolis) and its vernacular equivalent form Μοσχόπολη (Moschópoli). The Βοσκόπολη/Βοσκόπολις (Voskópoli/Voskópolis/Voscopolis) variant is also used in various occasions in Greek. The town is called İskopol or Oskopol in Turkish and Москополе (Moskopole) in Bulgarian. It is known as Moscopole or Voscopole in Romanian.

The forms Voskopolis/Voskopoja derive from the Greek word Vosko (shepherd) which refers to one of the main professions performed by the Aromanian people. Also the suffix poja/polis from the syntagm can be either linked to the Greek word polis (city, citadel) or the Slavic polje, i.e. plain. Peyfuss strongly supports the latter interpretation, reasoning that this definition fits the configuration of the high plateau type terrain. According to Xhufi, it would be difficult to designate as a “plain” an isolated habitat at an altitude of 1,220 meters above sea level, preferring a link to the Greek word polis.

Use in historical records
The city appears under the Albanian rendering Voskopoja in Ottoman documents from the 16th-17th centuries. In Venetian and French commercial documents, both the forms Voscopolis and Moschopolis, the latter rendering being associated with the Aromanian-speaking population, appear to be used interchangeably. In the edicts of the Patriarch of Ohrid, the city appears under the form Moschopolis. The 18th century, author Meletios Mitros uses the form Voskopolis in his work Geography. In the Codex of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, the Aromanian rendering Moschopolis is commonly found. This is possibly due to the scribe of the Codex, Michel the former bishop of Gorë, being a native of the neighboring village of Shipskë, itself inhabited historically by an Aromanian population. However, when it comes to archival documents transcribed into the Codex, such as decisions of the Synod of the Patriarchate of Ohrid or even of the meetings of the clergy of Moscopole, Michel seems to have preferred the form Voskopoja. This is also the case regarding the events of the years 1660–1687, in which in the agreements concluded between the monks of the monasteries, the notables and the archons of the three districts of the city, the name of the city is given in the form Voskopoja.

Thus, the use of the forms Voskopoja/Moschopolis is not a certain conclusion of ethnic and social belonging, as even in the part of the Codex written by the hand of the Aromanian Michel, we nevertheless find cases where he also uses the form Voskopoja. What can be said with certainty is that both forms experienced cases of interchangeable usage, which is a strong indication of a long cohabitation and a close integration of the two communities. This may indicate that, at the time, except for the religious hierarchy and the documentation it produced, the name "Voskopoja" was very common among the lay population, and even among the lower clergy. Furthermore, Albanian surnames such as Ngushta, Vrusho and Krunde are found among the signatories of the agreement mentioned above, which represented the three districts of the city, perhaps the districts inhabited mainly by Albanians.

Geography
Modern Moscopole is located 21 km from Korçë, in the mountains of southeastern Albania, at an altitude of 1160 meters, and is a subdivision of Korçë municipality; its population in 2011 was 1,058. The municipality of Moscopole consists of the villages of Moscopole, Shipskë, Krushovë, Gjonomadh and Lavdar. In 2005, the municipality had a population of 2,218, whereas the settlement itself has a population of around 500.

Beginnings

Pouqueville identified Moscopole with the citadel of Museion, one of the 46 fortresses that, according to Procopius of Caesarea, Emperor Justinian I (527–565) had built in the province of Macedonia to defend against barbarian attacks. However, to this day, there is no trace of ancient construction in this place, albeit the area has not been excavated, not even in archaeological surveys. But, in the absence of the latter, it can be said that Moscopole was an inner trade node which, at least since the Byzantine period, linked the Korça basin to Berat, Vlora and Durrës. It would therefore be difficult to think that Justinian I would not have undertaken military fortifications in the area, which formed a corridor that in the future would be one of the most important passageways through which the migrating Slavic populations coming from Macedonia and moving towards the West entered.

The existence of Moscopole should not have escaped the chronicler Gjon Muzaka. Having left Albania in 1478, he describes in detail all the surrounding villages, including Voskop which, at the time of his writing in 1510, was according to him abandoned "una terra che si chiama Vescop, la quale è distrutta". In the case of Voskop mentioned by Muzaka it is probably the modern village with the name, located at the foot of the heights that lead to Moscopole. Muzaka seems to link Voskop to a still flat land when he asserts that Voskop was part of what he calls "paese di Devoli maggiore", therefore the Greater Devoll region. However, in another passage of his chronicle, Muzaka mentions Voskop again, but this time adding to it the name Beci, a village in the Opar zone proper "Voscopebeci". In the latter case, not only the unification with Beci of the heights of Opar, but also the fact of having included it in the same context with other known villages of this area, such as Dushkar, Lavdar, Marian and Opar, suggest that it may be Moscopole (in the mountains) and not Voskop (in the plain). This may represent a typical case of the existence of two nearby settlements bearing the same name, something also observable in nearby Moscopole: Upper Goskova and Lower Goskova, located to the east of the settlement. This theory is further supported by the fact that Muzaka distinguishes several times between agglomerations and individual settlements, sometimes doing this for settlements which in later periods came to form one settlement, such as the case of Drago and Stagna, modern Dragostunjë.

At the current state of knowledge, an ancient existence of Moscopole can only be assumed. As for its appearance in the pre-Ottoman Middle Ages, an affirmation of Johann Georg von Hahn, in which he recounts having read a codex of Moscopole in 1843, during his tenure as consul of Austria-Hungary. In it, he describes having read that the city was founded in 1338 by the head of the Muzaka family. It is unclear as to what codex Hahn is referring to. The Codex of the monastery of Saint-Prodrome in Moscopole, does affirm in its introductory part that the monastery in question was built in 1630, "two hundred and fifty or three hundred years after the foundation of the town of Moscopole itself", indicating that the latter must have been founded around the year 1330. However, this codex does not link the founding of Moscopole to the Muzaka family, as asserted by Hahn, who has probably consulted another unknown and possibly lost codex. Moreover, the fact is that the Codex of Saint-Prodrome, published by Ioakeim Martianos in 1939, makes several mentions of another older codex which he calls "the old codex" or “the great codex”, on the indications of which relied the monk Michel, who wrote in 1779 the second, newer codex known today. Subject to any reservations as to the possibility of an ancient or paleo-Byzantine substratum of the site, it is likely that Moscopole has existed, at least since the 14th century, in its initial function of pastoral agglomeration.

Moscopole continued to retain the appearance of a typically pastoral settlement even when it began to be covered by Ottoman documentation. The register for the year 1568/9 indicates that agricultural activity had already begun alongside that of stockbreeding. However, the Sigils of Berat retain two firmans of Sultan Ibrahim, of the year 1647, where the latter ordered the local authorities of Vlora not to impose arbitrary taxes and obligations on "the rayah of Moscopole" who were, according to him, "nomadic shepherds" and who "since their elders, each year, arrived with their sheep to the winter pastures of the sanjak of Vlora”.

Economy
In the middle of the 17th century, the inhabitants of Moscopole were still largely "nomadic herders" who moved with their flocks from summer pastures in Moscopole to those of the Sanjak of Avlona during the winter. It is precisely there that their conflict with the authorities of the Sanjak of Avlona started, as the sanjak's authorities started demanding fictitious or arbitrarily-increased taxes, which led them to complain to the Sublime Porte. However, only a few decades later, in 1700, the inhabitants of Moscopole had complained again to the Sultan, but this time because of the looting of their caravan in the Kaza of Tomorrica of the Sanjak of Avlona, where they usually passed to trade with their pastoral activity, which continued to be an important economic activity, and was therefore superimposed on commercial activity of these inhabitants: henceforth, it was the merchants of Moscopole who complained of raids on their caravans directed towards the ports of Durrës, Vlorë, etc.. It is not by chance that this change of status in the Ottoman system of land ownership corresponds to the period of the flourishing of Moscopole.

Historically, the main economic activity of the city was livestock farming. This activity led to the establishment of wool processing and carpet manufacturing units and the development of tanneries, while other locals became metal workers and silver and copper smiths. During the middle of the 18th century, the city became an important economic center whose influence spread over the boundaries of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, and reached further the Ottoman-ruled Eastern Orthodox world. This trade involved as far as the Archduchy of Austria, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Upper Saxony. Until 1769, the town traded on a large scale with renowned European commercial centres of that time, such as Venice, Vienna and Leipzig.

Growth

Sources are divided in considering Moscopole as a city in the proper sense of the term. Indeed, in 1770, a priest from Moscopole felt proud to call it a city when giving evidence before foreign authorities in Hungary (Moscopolis urbs Albaniae). In 1791, the geographers Philippides and Konstantas also qualify it as a city. But the geographer Meletios, who predated them and was writing at Moscopole's peak in 1728, calls Moscopole a town (πολισμα). If we refer to a local and more reliable source, the Codex of the monastery of Saint-Prodrome, its author Michel of Shipska (1779) still qualifies Moscopole as a village (ή χώρα Μοσχόπολις). However, the word hora often was used to mean place, without specifying whether it is a village, a city or an entire region. On the other hand, in the Codex of the monastery of Saint-Prodrome, various documents were transcribed ranging from different periods, be they deeds of sale and purchase of properties, deeds of donation, and even some synodal decisions of the Patriarchate of Ohrid. One of the latter, from 1686, describes Moscopole as a politeia (πολιτεία), which brings it closer in meaning to a city proper, but without explicitly identifying it as one. In his work Faith, published in Venice in 1732, Nektar Terpo, a native of Moscopole, attributes both names to this city. Speaking of certain archons of the city who worked to gain power by unjust means, he specifies for his part that these people were not liked by both the country and the city (ή χώρα καί πολιτεία). This gives credence to the translation of 'hora as a neutral name that could mean either village or country, regardless of its size and its economic and social typology. With regard to the other name given to Μoscopole, πολιτεία, as per the examples above, this word likely designated the community of Moscopole as a politically organized entity which as such maintained relations with other entities.

Although known in Europe, Moscopole was nevertheless considered only a village (dorf) being referred to as such in an official Austrian document from 1716, therefore from the period were its growth had already started. However, the extent of the information and knowledge that the Habsburg Empire had of this center located in the middle of the mountains of Albania remains to be clarified. For an early 18th century Austrian, Hungarian or Venetian, Moscopole was the exotic homeland of skillful, but somewhat rough and rude merchants who supplied their markets with wool, skins and wax, particularly sought after in the specific conditions of the 17th-18th centuries. Along with agriculture, animal husbandry remained a vital part of the economic activity of Moscopole. The mountain above the monastery of Saint Prodrome continued to serve as a pasture for the inhabitants of the area, even when the aspect of a craft and commercial town had become predominant in relation to its historically pastoral profile. The Codex of this monastery explicitly attests that at the end of the 17th century, butter, cheese and other livestock products were still the foodstuffs by which dues were paid or donations were made to it.

A printing press operated in Moscopole, which produced religious literature and school textbooks in Greek. It was the second printing press in Ottoman Europe to be established after that of Constantinople, having been founded by monk Georgios Konstantinidis. This establishment produced a total of nineteen books, mainly the collection of the Services to the Saints but also the Introduction of Grammar by the local scholar Theodore Kavalliotis. All locally printed books were exclusively written in Greek with the indication En Moschopolei. Claims by some Balkan scholars about the possible existence of multilingual prints or prints in Albanian, Aromanian or Slavic have not been verified. Kavalliotis later became director of the city's prestigious educational institution, which from 1744 was known as New Academy or Hellenikon Frontistirion, sponsored by wealthy foreign merchants. This institution became one of the leading centers of learning for Orthodox Christians in western Balkans. The language of education was Greek while renowned Greek teachers were invited to provide lessons.

The city also hosted an orphanage, known as Orphanodioiketerion, possibly the first in the post-Byzantine Orthodox world; and also a hospital and a total of 24 churches.

A cultural effervescence arose in Moscopole, and many authors published their works in both the Greek language (which was the language of culture of the Balkans at the time) and Aromanian, written in the Greek alphabet. In 1770, the first dictionary of four modern Balkan languages (Greek, Albanian, Aromanian and Bulgarian) was published here. Daniel Moscopolites, an Aromanian native priest of Moscopole, compiled a quadrilingual lexicon of Greek, Aromanian, Bulgarian and Albanian, that aimed at the Hellenization of the non-Greek-speaking Christian communities in the Balkans. Due to the high level of intellectual activity and Greek education, Moscopole was nicknamed as New Athens or New Mystra. As such, the city became an important 18th century center of the modern Greek Enlightenment.

The Aromanian Missal, an 18th-century liturgical book in Aromanian, was likely written in Moscopole. The authors of the Codex Dimonie, a collection of Aromanian-language biblical texts translated from Greek, may have also originated from Moscopole.

Destruction and decline
The 1769 sacking and pillaging by Muslim Albanian troops was just the first of a series of attacks to the city. Moscopole was attacked due to the participation of the residents in the preparations for a Greek revolt supported by the Russian Empire known as the Orlov Revolt. Its destruction culminated with the razing of 1788 by the troops of Ali Pasha of Ioannina. Moscopole was practically destroyed by this attack, with some of its commerce shifting to nearby Korçë and Berat.

The survivors were thus forced to flee, most of them emigrating mainly to Thessaly and Macedonia. Orthodox Albanians from Moscopole which migrated in the beginning of the 19th century to Kruševo would found the so called Ohtul di Arbinesh (Hill of the Albanians) neighbourhood. This community would soon assimilate into the Aromanian population of the city. A number of the Orthodox Albanian families from the city also settled in the city of Prilep during the beginning of the 19th century. There they formed a small but notable community, before eventually assimilating into the Bulgarian and to a lesser extent Greek corpus. Some of the commercial elite moved to the Archduchy of Austria, and the Kingdom of Hungary, especially to the respective capitals of Vienna and Budapest, but also to Transylvania, where they had an important role in the early national awakening of Romania. The city never rose back to its earlier status. However, a new school was established at the end of the 18th century whose headmaster in 1802 was Daniel Moscopolites. This school functioned the following decades, thanks to donations and bequests by baron Simon Sinas. The diaspora of Moscopole located in Austria and Hungary continued the tradition of their ancestors by sponsoring institutions beneficial to the Greek people. During this period, many members of the Aromanian diaspora who migrated to Budapest and Vienna started developing a unique Aromanian identity, being one of the first Aromanian populations to do so. These cities became gathering centers for Aromanians and Aromanian language and culture was promoted.

With the destruction of Moscopole and the birth of Aromanian literature, many Aromanian writers, predominantly those young Aromanians educated in Romanian schools, began to write about Moscopole in a utopian way, with feelings and elements such as love, nostalgia, superstitions, mentalities, emotions and everyday aspects of life being predominant. Depression and nostalgia for the city became the main feelings in this Aromanian literary phenomenon. Romanian historian Sorin Antohi described the Aromanian elites engaging in this utopic literary discourse about Moscopole as having an exalted feeling of finding of a "magnetic beauty and without any imperfection of a brilliant city" which "evokes a dreamlike image". The founder of this Aromanian literary trend was Leon Boga, but it also includes works by Nicolae Constantin Batzaria, Nicolae Caratană, Ion Foti, Kira Mantsu and Nicolae Velo.

In 1914, Moscopole was part of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus. The now village was destroyed again in 1916 during World War I by the marauding Albanian bands of Sali Butka, who set Moscopole on fire and killed a number of local civilians. Butka is considered among Aromanian circles as a criminal due to this event. This incident was followed by the looting of the village's churches by French soldiers belonging to the administration of the Autonomous Province of Korçë.

During the Greco-Italian War, on 30 November 1940, the town was captured by the advancing Greek forces. In April 1941, after the capitulation of Greece, Moscopole returned to Axis control. The remaining buildings were razed three times during the partisan warfare of World War II: once by Italian troops and twice by the Albanian nationalist Balli Kombëtar organization. Fifteen partisans from Moscopole died during the war. In their honor, a Lapidar (Albanian monument) was erected in the village with the names of the partisans engraved.

Of the old city, six Orthodox churches (one in a very ruined state), a bridge and a monastery survive.

Modern times
At 1996 the church of Saint Michael was vandalized by Albanian adolescents under the influence of a foreign Muslim fundamentalist, an incident that shocked and dismayed the Albanian public. In 2002, the five standing churches were put on the World Monuments Fund's 2002 World Monuments Watch. Today, Moscopole is just a small mountain village and ski resort. During recent years, a Greek language institution and a joint Greek–Albanian initiative has operated in Moscopole.

Early period
The first Ottoman register of the area of Korça and Permet at the end of the 14th century does not mention Moscopole, and also omittes many of the surrounding villages in the region mountain range of Opar. However, this document can not serve as a basis for drawing a conclusion on the existence of the settlement at that time as the mountainous region of Opar had not yet been fully conquered by the Ottoman Empire and as such the region was not of interest to the register. The summary register of Rumelia of years 1520-1530 includes the nahiyes of Ohrid, Beral (Vlora) and of Elbasan, while omitting the kaza of Korça (which included Moscopole), which from that time onwards was placed under the dependence of the nahiyah of Monastir. However, it lists villages in the area more to the north, those of Maliq and the Gora, such as Marian, Niça, Shkoza, Manastirica, Maliq, Symiza, Këmbëthekra, all villages located in the north of Moscopole. Oso is the only village in the Opar region that appears on this register. Moscopole appears with certainty a few decades later in the Great Register bonds of the kaza of Korça, Bilisht and Krupishta of the year 1568/9, as a rural settlement with 330 household heads. Later, from 1647, it appears in documents Ottomans as a prerogative (mülk) of the Sultan's mother.

The other Ottoman summary register, that of the year 1668/9, does not mention Moscopole, but the kaza of Korça to which Moscopole also belonged. The kaza of Korça appears there as the kaza which had the largest number of inns listed (569) within the framework of the sandjak of Rumelia (Monastir). Even if one attributed to Moscopole the majority of these 569 inns, compared to the register of a century earlier, that of 1568/9 which mentions 330 household heads, a noticeable growth is not evident, likely meaning Moscopole had yet to experience the massive growth it would become known for.

City
Although located in a rather isolated place in the mountains of southern Albania, the city rose to become the most important center of the Aromanians. Many of its inhabitants originated from the southern parts of Epirus, such as the settlements of Skamneli and Metsovo (Aminciu, an Aromanian settlement as well) in northwestern Greece. It was a small settlement until the end of the 17th century, but afterwards showed a remarkable financial and cultural development. Some writers have claimed that Moscopole in its glory days (1730–1760) had as many as 70,000 inhabitants; other estimates placed its population closer to 35,000; but a more realistic number may be closer to 3,500. According to Max Demeter Peyfuss, "the truth may be closer to this number [sc. 3500] than to 70,000. Moschopolis was certainly not among the largest Balkan cities of the 18th century".

Following the first fatal blow suffered around the middle of the 18th century, the city was reduced to a degraded agglomeration with some 200 houses. It continued to be so even at the dawn of modern times. According to the Swedish historian Johann Thunmann, who visited Moscopole and wrote a history of the Aromanians in 1774, everyone in the city spoke Aromanian; many also spoke Greek, which was used for writing contracts. In fact the city is said to have been mainly populated by Aromanians. The fact was confirmed by a 1935 analysis of family names that showed that in the 18th century the majority of the population were indeed Aromanians, but there were also Greeks, Albanians and Bulgarians present in the city.

Decline
In 1894, Gustav Weigand, a researcher who was interested in the populations of the Balkans, visited Moscopole which he describes as a village (Dorf) of only 220 families, half of whom were Albanian and the other half Aromanian.

In 1900, a report by the Greek consul Betsos gave details of the demographic composition of Moscopole. It noted that the 18th century destruction of the settlement resulted in the dispersal of its Aromanian population and that some old remaining families moved to other places, in particular Korçë. Around 30 old families remained, with the socio-political crisis that engulfed the nearby Opar region resulting in Albanian Christians leaving their previous homes and settling in Moscopole. Aromanians from two nearby settlements also resettled in Moscopole. In 1900, Moscopole was populated by a total of 200 families, consisting of 120 Albanian and 80 Aromanian families. Most of the older Aromanian families had a Greek national consciousness while 3 families along with some of the newer residents were pro-Romanian (from a total of 20 older families), led by an unfrocked priest named Kosmas.

Modern times
Moscopole, known in Albania as being a traditionally Christian settlement, is a neighbour to various Muslim and Christian Albanian villages that surround it, although the latter ones have become "demographically depressed" due to migration. During the communist period, some Muslims from surrounding villages settled in Moscopole, making locals view the village population as mixed (i përzier) and lamenting the decline of the Christian element.

In modern times, Aromanians no longer form a majority of the population, with incoming Christian and Muslim Albanians having further settled in the village, especially after the Second World War. According to the 2011 Albanian census, out of the 1,058 inhabitants, 69.57% declared themselves as Albanian, 5.48% declared themselves as Aromanian, 0.47% declared themselves as Macedonians, and 0.09% as Greek. The rest of the population did not specify its ethnicity. In term of religion, the same census claimed Moscopole as a Muslim-majority village by 76.07% with an Eastern Orthodox minority of 11.69%. However, on the quality of the specific data the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities stated that "the results of the census should be viewed with the utmost caution and calls on the authorities not to rely exclusively on the data on nationality collected during the census in determining its policy on the protection of national minorities." Furthermore, the census was boycotted by a significant number of the Greek community of Albania, typically of Eastern Orthodox denomination.

Orthodox churches and monasteries
The remaining churches in the region are among the most representative of 18th century ecclesiastical art in the Balkans. Characteristically, their murals are comparable to that in the large monastic centres at Mount Athos and Meteora, both in Greece. The architectural design is in general specific and identical: a large three-aisled basilica with a gable roof. The churches are single-apsed, with a wide altar apse and internal niches that serve as prothesis and diaconicon. Most churches also have one niche, each on the northern and southern walls, next to the prothesis and the diaconicon. Along the southern side there is an arched porch.

Of the original around 24–30 churches of Moscopole, besides the St. John the Baptist Monastery (Manastiri i Shën Prodhromit or Manastiri i Shën Gjon Pagëzorit; Μονή Αγίου Ιωάννου του Προδρόμου) in the vicinity of the town, only five have survived into modern times:
 * Saint Athanasius (Kisha e Shën Thanasit; Bãserica Ayiu Athanas; Ναός Αγίου Αθανασίου)
 * Saint Elijah (Kisha e Shën Ilias; Bãserica Ayiu Ayilau; Ναός Προφήτη Ηλία)
 * Saint Mary (Kisha e Shën Mërisë; Bãserica Stã Mãria; Ναός Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου)
 * Saint Michael or Archangels Michael and Gabriel (Kisha e Shën Mëhillit; Ναός Αγίων Ταξιαρχών)
 * Saint Nicholas (Kisha e Shën Kollit; Bãserica Ayiu Nicola; Ναός Αγίου Νικολάου)

Some of the ruined churches include the following:
 * Saint Paraskevi (Kisha e Shën Premtes; Bãserica Stã Vinãra; Ναός Αγίας Παρασκευής), patron saint of the town and probably the first church built in Moscopole in the 15th century
 * Saint Charalampus (Kisha e Shën Harallambit; Ναός Αγίου Χαραλάμπους), outer walls partially survived
 * Saint Euthymius, completely destroyed.

Climate
There is a combination of mild valley climate in the lower parts and true Alpine climate in the higher regions. Favorable climate conditions make this center ideal for winter, summer, sport and recreation tourism, so there are tourists during the whole year, and not only from areas of Albania, but also foreigners.

Notable people
People born in Moscopole:

 * Ioannis Chalkeus (1667–between 1730 and 1740), scholar and philosopher
 * Theophrastos Georgiadis (1885–1973), author and teacher
 * Nicolae Ianovici, linguist
 * Theodore Kavalliotis (1718–1789), priest and teacher
 * Georgios Konstantinidis, hieromonk and founder of the Moscopole printing house
 * Dionysios Mantoukas (1648–1751), Orthodox bishop
 * Violeta Manushi (1926–2007), actress
 * Ioakeim Martianos (1875–1955), Orthodox bishop
 * Daniel Moscopolites (1754–1825), scholar
 * Konstantinos Skenderis (1864–1959), journalist and author
 * Nektarios Terpos (late 17th century–18th century), religious scholar and monk
 * Konstantinos Tzechanis (1740–1800), philosopher, mathematician and poet
 * Constantin Ucuta, academic and protopope in Prussia
 * Iuliu Valaori (1867–1936), politician, professor and writer

Others with roots in Moscopole:
 * Mihail G. Boiagi (1780–1828, 1842 or 1843), grammarian and professor
 * Llazar Fundo (1899–1944), communist politician, journalist and writer
 * Emanoil Gojdu (1802–1870), lawyer
 * Mocioni family, with notable members of this family including Andrei Mocioni (1812–1880)
 * Max Demeter Peyfuss (1944–2019), historian, translator and writer
 * Victor Ponta (born 1972), jurist and politician, former Prime Minister of Romania
 * Sandër Prosi (1920–1985), film and theater actor and violin player; his father was from Moscopole
 * Agim Shuke (1942–1992), actor, and his son Orli Shuka (born 1976), also actor; the Shuka family originated from Moscopole
 * Sinas family, with notable members of this family including Georgios Sinas (1783–1856) and Simon Sinas (1810–1876)
 * Konstantinos Smolenskis (1843–1915), Hellenic Army officer
 * Tzon Sossidis (1924–2005), diplomat and politician
 * Lazaros Tsamis (1878–1933), merchant and Macedonian Struggle fighter
 * Andreas Tzimas (1909–1972), communist politician and resistance soldier; his mother was from Moscopole

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according to my sources, you changed the quote of ML King incorrectly. do you have a reference for your version? Wolfman 21:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drabble

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. dbenbenn | talk 23:41, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Drabble
This is extremely unencyclopedic, and fails to even explain what the hell this "myth" is. -- Cabhan 21:28, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this one, but there is a somewhat notable comic strip called Drabble. By the way, I think it's safe to say any article with its author's signature on it is an easy candidate for deletion. Szyslak 21:31, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and recreate about the comic strip. RickK 21:36, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Interestingly enough there are 'two' comic strips with that name; the other is about leprechauns in yellow hats, and has been physically published in three or four albums. Dupuis iirc. Radiant! 08:55, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Author fails to mention the real and famous Margaret Drabble, which does not bode well for this thing's authenticity. DJ Clayworth 21:49, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I withdraw some of the above, as the word seems to be in widespread usage, despite its dubious origins. DJ Clayworth 04:04, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment -- I suggest that we should expand the article to only include information about the comic strip -- maybe write a short stub for now. A definition of the word "Drabble" is not needed in Wikipedia because it's in wiktionary.org and other dictionary web sites. As for the "myth" part, I'll need to see more references than that. Zzyzx11 22:49, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep None of reasons cited fit in criteria specified in deletion policy. Article is more than dictionary definition, but does reference definition on wiktionary.org.  Article refers to comic strip as well as myth. Article does refer to the living author Margaret Drabble (early versions linked to her biography, it now links to her wikipedia article).Stephenboothuk 21:35, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and recreate article about the comic strip. A.D.H. (t&m) 04:02, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Clean up. If anything this needs to be expanded. Although it may have started from an urban myth, googling shows that there are "Drabbles" written. With a few sites devoted to them. And it seems they are a common challange on writer's sites.
 * Keep, seems notable. JamesBurns 07:53, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User:RoninVII

Who I Am
A high school senior recently appointed to the United States Air Force Academy. I have been active on Wikipedia since February 15th, 2005. I am open to any and all edits on this page as I am still a novice.

What I Love
Science, fantasy, writing, logic, philosophy, soccer, debate and all intersections of the above.

Finished
A forgotten citation for the Seminex article

--RoninVII 20:07, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Which I screwed up marvelously. Thanks for the help, Ropcat

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John A. Gronouski

John Austin Gronouski Jr. (October 26, 1919 – January 7, 1996) was the Wisconsin state commissioner of taxation and served as the United States Postmaster General from 1963 until 1965 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Biography
Gronouski was born in Dunbar, Wisconsin, the son of Mary (Riley) and John Austin Gronouski. He was of Polish and Irish descent. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1942, and he joined the military during World War II. Gronouski served as a navigator in the Air Force until October 1945. Gronouski married the former Mary Louise Metz on January 24, 1948. They had two daughters, Stacy Ann Jennings and Julia Kay Glieberman.

He earned an M.A. in 1947 and a Ph.D. in 1955, both from the University of Wisconsin. In 1952, he ran for the United States Senate against Joseph McCarthy, who won reelection. In 1959, Gronouski joined the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and was named the executive director of the Revenue Survey Commission.

In 1960, he became the Wisconsin state commissioner of taxation, and he supported John F. Kennedy for President. In 1963 Gronouski was appointed Postmaster General, the first Polish-American Cabinet officer. As Postmaster General, Gronouski promoted the original five-digit zip code system, and worked to end racial discrimination against postal employees. After he left the Cabinet on November 2, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to be Ambassador to Poland.

After President Richard M. Nixon took office in 1969, Gronouski became founding dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Gronouski served as dean until 1974. He served as a member of Eisenhower Commission (on international radio broadcasting) and as the Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting during the Carter administration.

In retirement, Gronouski lived in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he died on January 7, 1996. He is interred in Allouez Catholic Cemetery and Chapel Mausoleum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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User talk:Yapavanna

For many years people have suffered from foot problems. Those days with the development of modern technology, it doesn't have to be such. Many new materials had been developed to accomodate common foot conditions.

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Adolph Hausrath

Adolf Hausrath (13 January 1837 – 2 August 1909), a German theologian, was born at Karlsruhe.

Biography
He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, Berlin and Heidelberg, where he became Privatdozent in 1861, professor extraordinary in 1867 and ordinary professor in 1872. He was a disciple of the Tübingen school and a strong Protestant. His scholarship was sound and his style vigorous.

Hausrath died on 3 August 1909 in Heidelberg.

Works
Among other works he wrote Der Apostel Paulus (1865), Neutestamentliche Zeitgeschichte (1868–1873, 4 vols; Eng. trans.), D. F. Strauss und die Theologie seiner Zeit (1876-1878, 2 vols), and lives of Richard Rothe (2 vols, 1902), and Luther (1904). Under the pseudonym George Taylor he wrote several historical romances, especially Antinous (1880), which quickly ran through five editions, and is the story of a soul "which courted death because the objective restraints of faith had been lost." Klytia (1883) was a 16th-century story, Samen (1884) a fictional work of 19th century Germany, Jetta (1885) a tale of the great immigrations, and Elfriede "a romance of the Rhine".

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Talk:La Paz

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I do not see this article anywhere on the nominations page. This article should be re-named La Paz, Bolivia since there are many other cities and towns with the same name. Access should be via the disambiguation page for La Paz. Tmangray 17:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree and also I can not find any thing about restaurants or any info on them what so ever. I think this website should at least give some form of valuable information on every topic basing it on La Paz, Bolivia. {sigh} I have a 250 project due in a couple of days and I do not have time to go to Barnes & Nobel to find the info that i need, so do some of us a favor and get some info on Restaurants! Thank you very much I appreciate it p.s- what does disambiguation mean?

I see no reason to name the article La Paz, Bolivia; there are other places called La Paz, but there are also many places called Paris. La Paz is the highest capital in the world, has a large population, and a completely unique urban topography. Dawson 02:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Dawson It most definitely should be renamed, as there is also a La Paz, Baja California Sur. The mexican state's capital. Oddly enough, THAT ONE is named La Paz, Baja California Sur. 66.119.27.235 16:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I disagree. There's a Paris in Texas, but the article about Paris in France is just called "Paris". Similarly, there are at least two places called New York in England. There's a London and a Sydney in Ontario, but does that mean that the article entitled "London" should be changed to "London, United Kingdom" and "Sydney" to "Sydney, Australia"? No — and similarly, when people around the world talk about "La Paz" they are generally assumed to be talking about La Paz in Bolivia: in the absence of local reasons to assume anything else, if they mean another La Paz, they say so. Ondewelle, 19 May 2008

 * I agree, it should stay as-is. Benwing (talk) 03:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Skyline of La Paz
The Illimani is the foremost feature of the skyline of La Paz. The skyline picture of San Jorge showing the buildings needs to include it in order for it to be properly labeled

there are also lots of grammar errors and typos in the article.

216.164.63.182 (talk) 01:08, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

picture by NASA, ok I'm removing that
La Paz ""Areal view by NASA""

- so how do we know it was from NASA. If so, it's irrelevant, there are thousands of areal vies of cities. i'm taking that off. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 13:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

I'm sure the Bolivian Air Force did it. Oh wait, the US doesnt allow Bolivia to buy planes for its airforce... its probably NASA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.94.90 (talk) 16:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Why isn't the altitude of this city mentioned?
Please insert the altitude and more on the climate, as its very interesting for many. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.173.139 (talk) 22:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Reply to that upset guy.
Ok, I'll try to do that restaurant thing for all of you since I live here even though I never though wikipedia was a pub locator. The thing you say about disambiguation... ok, the other places with the same name are mostly small towns in comparison; plus this is the capital of an entire contry unlike the other places. enough said. If you are lazy enough to do this your self, it's necesary for you to shut your pie hole. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 13:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Ok, i'm doing this my self
sorry but this article is incomplete, unaccurate and really... bad. so i will do the entire article my self like I did with the spansh version. I live here, I was born here and now I will re make this because i think it was written by a tourist, not by someone that knows this place good enough. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.1.190.153 (talk) 14:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Satellite view
Wow. In the purported "NASA satellital view", La Paz is so small as to be invisible. Can you find it? A closer view (about 100 times closer) would be more useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xuehxolotl (talk • contribs) 01:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Dubious reason
The statement "The reason for this division is that the lower you go in the city, the more oxygen there is in the air and the milder the weather is" is dubious. The altitude difference between the valley bottom in the city centre and the surrounding hills is hardly enough to notice the difference in oxygen and weather. In fact, the same division between poor and rich is also present in other South American cities where altitude does not play a role. For example, in Rio, the rich like to build their homes on flat level land in the valleys where access is easy, and the poor are pushed to the inaccessible hills where land is not useful for much else. I suspect that this may be the case in La Paz as well. -- P199 (talk) 13:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but people also enjoy milder weather. La Paz is definitively not Rio or Sao Paolo to apply that formula too. The average temperature at night is 0 to 5 degrees celsius. So whoever wrote that, has a point about it. Rich people dont move to El Alto cuz its flat and accessible... if you know what I mean. If not, look up El Alto on google images and you will know what I mean. Its pretty stupid how you try to stereotype everyone... stop being so ignorant! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.89.94.90 (talk) 16:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

 * At these high altitudes, small differences in height make much more difference than they do at lower altitudes in terms of propensity for altitude-related illnesses. However, I shouldn't have thought that this was a big issue for people living at these atitudes as much as for people who are visiting and so are not acclimatised.Ondewelle, 19 May 2008

 * It could be more complicated than you think. 5 blocks and 200 feet in altitude often causes major temperature differences in San Francisco due to fog and complex topography that influences the strength of prevailing cold winds blowing off the ocean.  La Paz obviously is nowhere near the sea but the topography is very complex.  Also, El Alto is 1,000 feet up, and at 12,000 feet or so, that can make an enormous difference (even for people living there) in altitude sickness.  BTW the issue in Rio is partly that the hills are very steep and there are torrential rains that tend to destroy anything built on a steep hill. Benwing (talk) 03:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I live in La Paz's "lowest" side since I was born and the reason for it to be more attractive is because of the temperatures: it's usually around 3ºC warmer than downtown, and 5ºC than El Alto, nobody cares about the altitude as much.

Airport info is wrong
This page states the airstrip at El Alto is the longest in the world, but according to another Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_runways) it is not even close. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bert37143 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Capital City
The article states "Located at an altitude of 3,660 metres (12,008 ft), it is the world's highest capital city." But the capital of Bolivia is Sucre... Chmehl (talk) 14:31, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Descenso del Cóndor
Why do not insert this sport fact? La Paz holds a crazy downhill ride in MTB: http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331578555844/downhill-goes-streetwise-at-descenso-del-condor --TheDRaKKaR (talk) 02:10, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Irrelevant Education Section
One of the latest editions shows a universities list citing a webpage ranking site. The information is irrelevant and seems biased, it should be reverted to its previous state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.57.117.248 (talk) 06:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

temperature
Who calls 19 C cool? I've changed it to mild because that's what it is in my point of view.--90.202.5.22 (talk) 15:17, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Wrong picture of La Paz
This photo is not a photo of the city of La Paz, this photo is "La Ceja" (eyebrow) El Alto.

I'm taking out. Elaloon (talk) 22:10, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

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Image of La Paz traffic zebras needed
Does anyone have an image of La Paz traffic zebras? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:16, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Never mind. Found one. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:12, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

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Ribeirinha (Ribeira Grande)

Ribeirinha is a parish in the district of Ribeira Grande in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 2,349, in an area of 17.98 km2. It contains the localities Gramas, Lameiro, Ribeirinha, Santa Rosa and Santo António.

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Dynamo Dresden

Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, is a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded on 12 April 1953 as a club affiliated with the East German police and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles.

After the reunification of Germany, Dynamo played four seasons in the top division, Bundesliga, from 1991 to 1995, but have since drifted between the second and fourth tiers. Since being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the 2021–22 season, the club has competed in the 3. Liga.

Although the club's badge is predominantly red, they use gold and black as their home colours, derived from the official city flag and coat of arms of the city of Dresden.

Early years (1950–1954)
The city of Dresden played a significant part in German football before and during World War II. Local football team Dresdner SC won the national championships in 1943 and 1944. The occupying Allied authorities dissolved organizations across Germany, including sports clubs like Dresdner SC, after the war as part of the process of denazification. Dresdner SC was reestablished in 1946 as SG Friedrichstadt. However, the eastern part of Germany, including Dresden, was under Soviet control, and the sports club was considered too bourgeois by authorities.

SG Friedrichstadt met ZSG Horst Zwickau at the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion in Dresden on 16 April 1950. The match would practically decide which of the two teams that would win the East German championship in the 1949–50 season. The match was attended by 60,000 spectators at the Heinz-Steyer-Stadion. The SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht and his entourage were also present. ZSG Horch Zwickau had been founded only one year earlier and embodied the form of organization that the SED and the state leadership wanted to promote for the sports movement they propagated. ZSG Horch Zwickau won the match 1–5 and became East German champions. The match was characterized by a very physical play from ZSG Horch Zwickau and several controversial referee decisions in favor of ZSG Horch Zwickau. The players of SG Friedrichstadt left the pitch without greeting their opponents and thousands of angry Dresden spectators invaded the pitch. East German sports authorities took these events as a pretext to dissolve SG Friedrichstadt and delegate the players to BSG VVB Tabak Dresden.

The city needed a new, ideologically safe representative in the DDR-Oberliga. BSG VVB Tabak Dresden was planned to take over the place of SG Friedrichstadt in the DDR-Oberliga. However, most players from the former team of SG Friedrichstadt, including player-coach Helmut Schön, did not agree with the move to BSG VVB Tabak Dresden and left Dresden to join Hertha BSC or other clubs under the German Football Association (DFB). To save the place in the DDR-Oberliga for Dresden, the place was instead given to SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.

SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden played in the lower-tier Stadtliga Dresden at the time of the dissolution of SG Fredrichsstadt. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden was thus able to enter DDR-Oberliga without having to progress through divisions. To keep its place in the DDR-Oberliga, the team of SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden would be reinforced with players from all over the country.

SV Deutsche Volkzpolizei Dresden was originally founded as SG Volkspolizei Dresden in 1948. The head of the Volkspolizei Kurt Fischer ordered the founding of a central sports association for all sports communities of the Volkspolizei around East Germany on 20 June 1950. The new sports association was named SV Deutsche Volkspolizei. SG Volkspolizei Dresden was thus incorporated into the new sports association and renamed SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden. The order from Fischer also contained the passage that the best football players in the sports communities of the Volkspollizei should be concentrated in the now first-tier SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden.

The 40 best players of the various Volkspolizei teams in East Germany were then brought together for a training session in Forst in July 1950. Coaches Fritz Sack and Paul Döring picked out 17 players from 11 different cities who were delegated to Dresden to form the team. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Potsdam lost its five top performers to Dresden, including Herbert Schoen, Johannes Matzen and Günter Schröter, and was severely weakened. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei Dresden quickly established itself as a force in East German football. The team won its first title in the 1951–52 FDGB-Pokal.

The new sports association SV Dynamo was founded on 27 March 1953. SV Dynamo was formed from SV Deutsche Volkspolizei and the sports communities of the Secretariat of State Security, commonly known as the Stasi. The president of SV Dynamo was Erich Mielke, at the time deputy head of the Stasi. SV Deutsche Volkspolizei was incorporated into SV Dynamo and reformed as Dynamo Dresden on 12 April 1953. The official founding date of Dynamo Dresden has since been 12 April 1953. Shortly after this, the club claimed its first league title.

However, success proved to be the club's undoing. The team Dynamo Dresden was relocated to Berlin in November 1954 to play for the new sports club SC Dynamo Berlin in the DDR-Oberliga. The remainder of Dynamo Dresden was left to regroup in the second-tier DDR-Liga, taking over the place in the DDR-Liga, as well as points and goals, from dissolved SC DHFK Leipzig. Political factors and pressure from Erich Mielke were probably the main reasons behind the relocation of Dynamo Dresden to Berlin. The relocation was meant to provide the capital with a competitive team that could rival Hertha BSC, Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin and Tennis Borussia Berlin, which were still popular in East Berlin and drew football fans to West Berlin.

Re-emergence (1954–1969)
Dynamo Dresden was left with a team composed of youth and reserve players and had dropped to the fourth tier by 1957, playing in the local Bezirksliga. Dynamo Dresden began to climb the divisions, though, and by 1962 they were back in the DDR-Oberliga, and although this first season ended in relegation, they bounced back immediately. They recovered equally well from another relegation in 1968, and remained in the Oberliga from 1969 until its dissolution in 1991. This relegation came after a fourth-place finish in 1967, which enabled Dynamo's first foray into European football – they entered the 1967–68 Fairs Cup, where they were eliminated by Scottish side Rangers in the first round.

East German football was reorganized during the 1965–66 season. Ten football departments were separated from their sports clubs to create ten dedicated football clubs (Fußballclub) (FC). The best talents in the country were meant to be concentrated in the new dedicated football clubs, with the object to bring stability to the game at the top level and to develop players for the national team. It had long been planned to merge Dynamo Dresden with the football department of sports club SC Einheit Dresden, to concentrate the best footballer in the regional district in one club. This had been done in Leipzig. However, a tug of war developed between Erich Mielke and the SED First Secretary in Bezirk Dresden Werner Krolikowski. Erich Mielke did not want to give up Dynamo Dresden, while Krolikowski advocated for the establishment of a civil football club. The stalemate continued for one and a half years. The football department of SC Einheit Dresden was reorganized as FSV Lokomotive Dresden on 12 January 1966. Dynamo Dresden was then declared a regional district center of excellence (Leistungszentrum) in Bezirk Dresden by the district board of the DTSB on 5 August 1968. The club could now draw on the best players in the whole regional district.

Dynamo Dresden would enjoy the same funding and the same privileges as a designated football club, although it retained its designation as a "Sports Community" (Sportgemeinschaft) (SG). Without this support, the club's future success would have been hard to achieve.

Glory years (1969–1978)
During the 1970s, Dynamo established themselves as one of the top teams in East Germany, under the management of Walter Fritzsch. They won five league titles (1971, 1973, 1976, 1977 and 1978), and two cups, (1971 and 1977). They battled with 1. FC Magdeburg for domination of the league, and became the most popular team in the country, regularly drawing crowds of 25,000, around three times what other clubs were attracting. They also began to establish themselves as a presence in European football – they played in European competition every year during the 1970s, and eliminated some big names – beating FC Porto, Juventus and Benfica on their way to four quarter-final finishes. During this time Dynamo came up against West German opposition for the first time, losing against Bayern Munich 7–6 on aggregate in the last 16 of the 1973–74 European Cup. Dynamo Dresden lost the first leg 4–3 away in Munich and managed a 3–3 draw home at the Dynamo-Stadion. The Stasi had tapped the salon at the Interhotel Newa in Dresden where the Bayern Munich team held their final meeting before the second leg. A message with information about the line-up of Bayern Munich was quickly sent by motorcycle to the coach of Dynamo Dresden Walter Fritzsch in preparation for the match. On three occasions they were eliminated by English side Liverpool, twice in the UEFA Cup and once in the European Cup, and each time Liverpool went on to win the competition. On three other occasions in the 1970s, Dynamo were eliminated by the team that eventually won the tournament — Leeds United in the 1970–71 Fairs Cup, Ajax in the 1971–72 European Cup, and Bayern Munich in the 1973–74 European Cup. In 1973, Hans-Jürgen Kreische was the first Dynamo Dresden player to be named East German Footballer of the Year, and was followed by Hans-Jürgen Dörner in 1977. Kreische was the league's leading goalscorer on four occasions, and was named in East Germany's squad for the 1974 World Cup, along with teammate Siegmar Wätzlich.

Capital dominance (1978–1991)
BFC Dynamo stood out among other clubs within SV Dynamo. The club was located at the frontline of the Cold War and was a representative of the capital of East Germany. This meant that the club had to be well-equipped. BFC Dynamo was considered the favorite club of the president of SV Dynamo and the head of the Stasi Erich Mielke. Under the patronage of Erich Mielke and the Stasi, BFC Dynamo would get access to the best training facilities, equipment, coaching staff and talents.

East German football had generally been set up in favour of the designated football clubs (FC), who had access to talents within designated areas. Dynamo Dresden was a center of excellence in Bezirk Dresden, which meant that the club had privileged access to talents in the whole regional district. However, BFC Dynamo would be able to draw on talents from all parts of East Germany, except Bezirk Dresden. The club benefited from a nationwide scouting network, supported by numerous training centers (TZ) of SV Dynamo. BFC Dynamo would have the best material conditions in the league and the best team by far. BFC Dynamo won ten consecutive titles, from 1979 to 1988. Of all clubs, Dynamo Dresden was the most affected by their success, finishing runners-up on six occasions.

However, Dynamo Dresden also had its patrons. According to Hans-Jürgen Dörner, the club was helped to remain a top club by three local politicians. One of them was Hans Modrow, the long-time SED First Secretary in Bezirk Dresden. Another one was Manfred Scheler, the head of the District Council in Bezirk Dresden. Scheler was a devoted fan, who was active in using his connections to provide players with shortage goods and services, such as a car, an apartment or a plumber. A third was Lieutenant general Willi Nyffenegger, the long-time head of the regional district authority of the Volkspolizei in Bezirk Dresden. The club also benefited from support from Stasi Major general Horst Böhm, the head of the regional district administration of the Stasi in Bezirk Dresden.  Böhm took involvement in the appointment and dismissal of trainers and the contracts of players. He was also a sponsoring member of the club. According to Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Horst Böhm put local patriotism first in the rivalry with BFC Dynamo. The rivalry between fans of the two Dynamo clubs also spread to units within the Stasi Guards Regiment "Felix E. Dzerzhinsky". Another keen supporter was the long time SED Second Secretary in Bezirk Dresden Lothar Stammnitz.

Walter Fritzsch had retired in 1978, and was succeeded by Gerhard Prautzsch, who was in turn followed by former players Klaus Sammer (1983–86), Eduard Geyer (1986–90) and Reinhard Häfner (1990–91). The star players of the 1970 were replaced by a new generation, including Torsten Gütschow, Ulf Kirsten, Matthias Sammer, and Andreas Trautmann, although the club lost three key players in 1981: Gerd Weber, who along with teammates Peter Kotte and Matthias Müller had been offered a lucrative contract with 1. FC Köln, intended to flee to the West while in Udine for a national team match against Italy in April 1981. The Stasi somehow got wind of this plan, and, in January 1981, the three players were arrested at Schönefeld Airport, from where the national team was about depart for Argentina, and banned for life from the DDR-Oberliga. Weber was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Kotte and Müller, who had decided to stay in Dresden, were nonetheless punished for their knowledge of Weber's plans. Dynamo Dresden won the FDGB-Pokal three times (1982 and 1984, 1985).

During the 1980s, the club continued its regular participation in European football, generally earning respectable results. In the 1985–86 Cup Winners' Cup, however, they were on the receiving end of a shocking defeat against Bayer Uerdingen of West Germany: having won the first leg 2–0, they were 3–1 up at half-time in the second leg, when goalkeeper Bernd Jakubowski was injured by Uerdingen's Wolfgang Funkel. Debutant Jens Ramme was introduced, and proceeded to let in six goals, as the team lost 7–3. In addition to this, striker Frank Lippmann took the opportunity of the match in Krefeld to escape to the west. Dynamo recorded their best ever European performance in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, beating AS Roma on the way to a semi-final defeat against VfB Stuttgart. Their last European campaign was the 1990–91 European Cup, which ended in defeat to eventual winners Red Star Belgrade. Dynamo's fans rioted at the second leg, which resulted in the club being banned from Europe for the following season.

The head of the Volkspolizei in Bezirk Dresden was also the head of the branch of SV Dynamo in Bezirk Dresden. The official sponsor (Trägerbetrieb) of Dynamo Dresden was the Volkspolizei. Players of Dynamo Dresden were formal employees of the Volkspolizei. Many players then underwent their military service with the Stasi Guards Regiment "Felix E. Dzerzhinsky" and became formal employees of the Stasi. 18 of the 72 players who had played at least once for Dynamo Dresden between 1972 and 1989 had been listed as unofficial collaborators (IM) of the Stasi.

West German chancellor Helmut Kohl privately attended the match between Dynamo Dresden and FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the 1987–88 DDR-Oberliga on 28 May 1988, during a private trip to East Germany with his wife Hannelore and son Peter. Dynamo Dresden ended the ten-year long dominance of BFC Dynamo and captured the league title in the 1988–89 season. The title was celebrated after a 5–0 win against 1. FC Union Berlin in front of 27,000 spectators at the Dynamo-Stadion in the last match day on 3 June 1989. Dynamo Dresden won the league title also in the 1989–90 season, adding a cup win, to complete a double. The Berlin Wall opened on 9 November 1989. The Stasi then lost its influence over football mid-season. BFC Dynamo stood at fourth place in the league after the first half of the season, and only finished the 1989–90 season in fourth place. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, many of the top players in East Germany took the opportunity to head west. BFC Dynamo was the first team to lose a top player. The team had lost its top striker Andreas Thom already during the winter break, and would lose more top players during the summer. Dynamo Dresden lost two star players during the summer of 1990: Ulf Kirsten and Matthias Sammer joining Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart respectively. With German reunification looming, many clubs in the East changed their name to shed their Soviet image, and Dynamo Dresden changed from SG to the more traditional ''1. FC''. The DDR-Oberliga also changed name for its final season: the league, now called the NOFV-Oberliga, was used to determine which places the East German clubs would take in the unified German league. Dynamo Dresden finished second, behind Hansa Rostock, thus qualifying for the Bundesliga.

Bundesliga (1991–1995)
Having been among the top clubs in the East, Dynamo found life in the Bundesliga much harder, struggling both financially and on the pitch. They spent four years at this level, during which they were in a near-constant battle against relegation. Their highest placing was 13th in 1993–94, but the following year they succumbed to the drop, finishing in last place, having gone through three managers (Sigfried Held, Horst Hrubesch and Ralf Minge) during the season. To add to this, the club had accumulated debts of more than 10 million DM, and were denied a license to play in the 2. Bundesliga, and had to drop down to the third tier Regionalliga Nordost. Rolf-Jürgen Otto, the club's president was jailed for having embezzled around 3 million DM from the club.

While many of the stars of the 1980s had moved west, some remained for Dynamo's Bundesliga tenure, including Torsten Gütschow and Hans-Uwe Pilz, while the club was able to attract players from other Eastern clubs, including Olaf Marschall, René Müller and Heiko Scholz. The fall of the wall brought the influx of Dynamo's first foreign players, and the club saw internationals from Australia (Mark Schwarzer), Poland (Piotr Nowak), Russia (Stanislav Cherchesov) and Sweden (Johnny Ekström), among others.

Ups and downs (1995–2006)
Dynamo sought to regroup in the Regionalliga, and again looked to former players to manage the team, being led by Hans-Jürgen Kreische (1995–96), Udo Schmuck (1996) and Hartmut Schade (1996–1998), but did not seriously challenge for promotion. In 1998, they finished second in the table, but with 60 points: 32 behind champions Tennis Borussia Berlin. 1999–2000 saw a restructuring of the Regionalliga: the four leagues were to be reduced to two, and Dynamo would have to finish in the top 7 to avoid relegation. Having finished 11th in the previous season they turned to Colin Bell, an English coach who had had some success with youth football in Germany, but he left in March 2000 after poor results and a player revolt. Cor Pot, a Dutchman, was brought in to replace him, and he turned the team around, but it was too late – they finished in eighth place, and were relegated to the fourth-tier Oberliga Nordost-Süd. By this point Dynamo were not even the top team in Dresden: Dresdner SC had returned after reunification, and finished as runners-up in the Regionalliga Nordost in 2000.

Optimism was high, though, after the way the last season had ended, and the slogan "Wir kommen wieder" (we're coming back), was adopted. However, the Oberliga was now highly competitive with VfB Leipzig, 1. FC Magdeburg and FSV Zwickau also having been relegated, and Dynamo couldn't match the consistency of their main promotion rivals Magdeburg and Leipzig. A 2–1 defeat against Magdeburg in February ended their promotion chances, and Pot resigned. With nothing to play for, Dynamo slumped to fifth place. For the following season, Christoph Franke was brought in as manager, and led the club to promotion – they won the league with only two defeats, and beat Hertha BSC's reserve team in a playoff to earn their place in the Regionalliga Nord. Dynamo's youth system was particularly successful during this period, with players including Lars Jungnickel, Silvio Schröter, Maik Wagefeld and Daniel Ziebig going on to play at a higher level.

Dynamo finished a respectable 7th in their first season back in the third tier, and followed that with another promotion, finishing second behind Rot-Weiß Essen. Life in the 2. Bundesliga began brightly, with a 3–1 win against MSV Duisburg, but by the halfway point of their first season they were facing relegation, with only 18 points. They recovered strongly in the second half of the season though, and finished in 8th place, thanks in part to signings such as Ansgar Brinkmann, Joshua Kennedy and Klemen Lavric. The 2005–06 season began in a similar way, as Dynamo climbed to third place with a 2–1 win over 1860 Munich in the Allianz Arena, but this was followed by thirteen matches without a win, resulting in the dismissal of Christoph Franke. Austrian manager Peter Pacult was brought in, with results improving temporarily, but Dynamo still failed to avoid relegation, finishing 15th.

Consolidation (2006–present)
Dynamo were back in the Regionalliga with the immediate aim of promotion, yet, despite a successful start, Peter Pacult left the club after six matches for a chance to manage his former club, Rapid Vienna. He was replaced by Norbert Meier, but Dynamo could not keep up their promotion bid, and finished seventh, due in part to poor away form. Another re-organisation of the league structure was looming, and Dynamo knew they'd have to finish in the top-10 to qualify for the new national 3. Liga. A number of former star players returned, including Lars Jungnickel, Marek Penksa and Maik Wagefeld, but results were not consistent, and Meier was sacked, replaced by former coach Eduard Geyer. Dynamo secured qualification on the last day, finishing eighth, but Geyer was dismissed due to disagreements with the board. In 2007, the club reverted to the name SG Dynamo Dresden.

The club turned to Ruud Kaiser, a Dutchman with a good reputation at youth level, as Geyer's replacement. They played in the first ever match of the third Liga, beating Rot-Weiß Erfurt 1–0 with a goal from Halil Savran, but results were not consistent, and they could only finish in mid-table. The 2009–10 season began badly, and, with Dynamo in relegation trouble, Kaiser was sacked and replaced by Matthias Maucksch, a former player who had had some success with the reserve team. Maucksch managed to drag the team away from relegation, and finished the season in 12th place. Maucksch led the team to contention for a playoff place during the 2010–11 season, but was sacked in April after a run of five games without a win, and was replaced by Ralf Loose. Loose ended the season unbeaten and secured third place, and a playoff against VfL Osnabrück which Dynamo won 4–2 on aggregate to earn promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.

Dynamo Dresden performed well in their first season back in the league. Consistently holding a position in the middle of the standings, the team was never in danger of being relegated. After securing a highly memorable 4–3 victory after being down three goals against Bayer Leverkusen in the first round of the 2011–12 DFB-Pokal season, Dynamo was excluded from the 2012/2013 DFB-Pokal due to fan excesses and abuse of fireworks during the second round match against Borussia Dortmund (0–2) in a first trial. The sentence was later turned into one Game behind closed doors and one away game without own fan support. Virtual tickets were offered to reduce the financial loss, leading to what was purported to be the first sold-out ghost game in history. The 2012–13 season started poorly for Dynamo and Ralf Loose was sacked in December 2012 after a 3–0 defeat to VfL Bochum with the team in 15th place. He was replaced by Peter Pacult, returning to the club after more than six years. Dynamo's form improved after Pacult's arrival, but the team still finished the league as 16th. Due to this, Dynamo had to enter relegation play-offs again after just two seasons, incidentally meeting VfL Osnabrück once more, with their roles now reversed. Dynamo emerged victorious with 2–1 on aggregate and remained in the second tier for the 2013–14 season. Pacult was sacked in August 2013 after a poor start and replaced with Olaf Janßen. Jansen was unable to save the club from the drop to the 3. Liga after they lost 3–2 at home to relegation rivals Arminia Bielefeld to drop into 17th place, a result which ultimately cost Jansen his job. Dynamo had drawn half of their matches, winning just five all season.

Under their new coach Stefan Böger, the club completely overhauled the squad with the intent of returning to the 2. Bundesliga as soon as possible. In August 2014, the team knocked Bundesliga giants FC Schalke 04 out of the first round of the DFB-Pokal, beating them with 2–1. The team advanced to the third round after beating VfL Bochum 2–1, but were ultimately knocked out by Borussia Dortmund. Böger was sacked in February 2015, with assistant coach Peter Németh taking over for the remainder for the season. The team finished 6th in the 2014–15 season. Under new manager Uwe Neuhaus, Dynamo went on to have a hugely successful season, and officially returned to second-level competition after a 2–2 draw at an away match against FC Magdeburg on 16 April 2016.

SV Dynamo
When they were founded as SG Volkspolizei, the club was sponsored by the East German police force, and in 1953, when they became Dynamo Dresden they were part of the SV Dynamo, the sport organization of the security agencies. Dynamo were the most powerful of all the sports societies, and this conferred certain advantages on the club. While many former security service clubs have struggled to shed their negative image, particularly BFC Dynamo, Dynamo Dresden remain popular and well-supported, having come to represent their home city.

Stadium
Dynamo plays at the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, which was opened in 1923, and also originally named the Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion after local track and field athlete Rudolf Harbig. The stadium was renamed Dynamo-Stadion by the East German authorities in 1971, but reverted to its former name after the reunification. With an original capacity of 24,000 spectators, the stadium was rebuilt in the beginning of the 1990s, in line with DFB and FIFA regulations, and was thoroughly modernised between June 2007 and December 2009. The modernized stadium opened on 15 September 2009 with a friendly match against Schalke 04 and has a capacity of 32,066 spectators.

Supporters
Dynamo were one of East Germany's best-supported clubs, regularly drawing crowds of around 25,000 during their heyday. Since reunification attendance levels have fluctuated along with the team's fortunes, while they were still one of the most well-supported teams in the lower leagues, drawing an average of around 10–15,000 fans in the 3. Liga. Following their 2011 advance to the 2nd League, they were again drawing crowds of 25,000. The 2013–14 season average attendance reached 27,004. Dynamo's supporters have very close relations with FK Sarajevo fans, Horde zla. In December 2020, Dynamo fans bought 72,000 tickets for the cup match at home to Darmstadt, even though it was played in an empty stadium – to show support for the struggling club.

Relationships with other clubs
Dynamo Dresden have a particularly fractious relationship with BFC Dynamo, who took over the first team and the place in the DDR-Oberliga from Dynamo Dresden in 1954, then as a football section of SC Dynamo Berlin. BFC Dynamo were their main obstacle to success in the 1980s, but the two clubs rarely meet these days. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig were traditionally Dynamo's main rivals in the battle for Saxon dominance, although this rivalry extends to other clubs, including Chemnitzer FC, formerly FC Sachsen Leipzig, Erzgebirge Aue, and, most recently, upstart RB Leipzig, though the clubs' disparate financial capabilities have so far prevented them from ever playing in the same division, their only official encounter thus far being a first-round match in the 2016–17 DFB-Pokal season, in which Dresden celebrated a hard-fought victory.

Dynamo's most noteworthy rival in their home city are Dresdner SC, although they are perpetually ill-matched, as Dresdner SC are mired in local football leagues. Another club, SC Borea Dresden were formed out of SG Dynamo Dresden-Heide, a former feeder club for Dynamo, but there is no longer an official connection.

Colours and crest
When they were formed as SG Volkspolizei Dresden, the club wore green and white, the colours of the former province of Saxony. Green and white were the colours of the Volkspolizei. When the team became part of SV Dynamo they adopted the sports society's wine red colour scheme. In 1968, the club was declared a regional center of excellence in Bezirk Dresden and adopted its current colours of yellow and black, the city colours of Dresden.

The club's original crest was built around the shield of the Volkspolizei, to whom they were affiliated. In 1953 they adopted the D logo of SV Dynamo, which was retained until reunification, when its wine red background was replaced with Saxon green. They reverted to the red background in the early 2000s.

Dynamo Dresden II
The club's reserve team, Dynamo Dresden II, played until 2015 in the tier five NOFV-Oberliga Süd. It has played at this level since 2009 with a fourth place in 2012 as its best result. In March 2015, the club announced that it would withdraw the reserve team from league competition and instead enter it in a friendlies competition with the reserve teams of Chemnitzer FC, Hallescher FC, Sparta Prague, FC Slovan Liberec and FK Teplice. However, though the competition's name Future League would suggest a more organized and concrete structure, this has so far led to little more than an incoherent series of friendly matches between amateur teams, with the idea appearing to have been largely abandoned by the participating clubs, despite some declarations of intent.

The team also made a losing appearance in the 1995 Saxony Cup final and won the competition in 2009.

Coaching history
Dynamo enjoyed its greatest successes under Walter Fritzsch, capturing the first division DDR-Oberliga title in 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, as well as finishing as vice-champions four times. The team also took the East German Cup (FDGB Pokal) in 1971 and 1977.

 * Fritz Sack 07/1950 – 9/1951
 * Rolf Kukowitsch 09/1951 – 04/1952
 * Paul Döring 04/1952 – 07/1953
 * Janos Gyarmati 07/1953 – 04/1954
 * Helmut Petzold 04/1954 – 11/1955
 * Heinz Werner 01/1956 – 06/1956
 * Rolf Kukowitsch 07/1956 – 12/1956
 * Helmut Petzold 01/1957 – 05/1966
 * Manfred Fuchs 06/1966 – 03/1968
 * Kurt Kresse 03/1968 – 06/1969
 * Walter Fritzsch 06/1969 – 06/1978
 * Gerhard Prautzsch 06/1978 – 06/1983
 * Klaus Sammer 07/1983 – 06/1986
 * Eduard Geyer 07/1986 – 04/1990
 * Reinhard Häfner 04/1990 – 06/1991
 * Helmut Schulte 06/1991 – 05/1992
 * Klaus Sammer 06/1992 – 04/1993
 * Ralf Minge 04/1993 – 06/1993
 * Sigfried Held 06/1993 – 11/1994
 * Horst Hrubesch 11/1994 – 02/1995
 * Ralf Minge 02/1995 – 06/1995
 * Hans-Jürgen Kreische 06/1995 – 04/1996
 * Udo Schmuck 04/1996 – 09/1996
 * Hartmut Schade 09/1996 – 03/1998
 * Werner Voigt 04/1998 – 12/1998
 * Damian Halata 12/1998 – 02/1999
 * Rolf Schafstall 02/1999 – 03/1999
 * Colin Bell 04/1999 – 03/2000
 * Cor Pot 03/2000 – 03/2001
 * Meinhard Hemp 03/2001 – 06/2001
 * Christoph Franke 07/2001 – 12/2005
 * Peter Pacult 12/2005 – 09/2006
 * Norbert Meier 09/2006 – 09/2007
 * Eduard Geyer 09/2007 – 06/2008
 * Ruud Kaiser 06/2008 – 10/2009
 * Matthias Maucksch 10/2009 – 04/2011
 * Ralf Loose 04/2011 – 12/2012
 * Peter Pacult 01/2013 – 08/2013
 * Olaf Janßen 09/2013 – 05/2014
 * Stefan Böger 05/2014 – 02/2015
 * Peter Németh 02/2015 – 06/2015
 * Uwe Neuhaus 07/2015 – 08/2018
 * Cristian Fiél 08/2018 – 09/2018
 * Maik Walpurgis 09/2018 – 02/2019
 * Cristian Fiél 02/2019 – 12/2019
 * Markus Kauczinski 12/2019 – 04/2021
 * Alexander Schmidt 04/2021 – 03/2022
 * Guerino Capretti 03/2022 – 06/2022
 * Markus Anfang 07/2022 –04/2024
 * Heiko Scholz 04/2024 –

Notable former players

As one of the leading clubs in East Germany, Dynamo Dresden provided 36 DDR internationals, including the country's second most-capped player, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, and its joint second top scorer, Hans-Jürgen Kreische. Twelve Dynamo players won Olympic medals, including six gold medallists in 1976. After German reunification a number of Dynamo players went on to represent the Germany national team, including Jens Jeremies, Ulf Kirsten, Olaf Marschall and Alexander Zickler.

Five Dynamo Dresden players were named East German Footballer of the Year: Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Andreas Trautmann, Ulf Kirsten and Torsten Gütschow. Dörner won the award three times, and the latter three players were its last three winners. Kreische and Gütschow were the leading scorers in the DDR-Oberliga seven times between them.

Perhaps the most notable Dynamo Dresden player is Matthias Sammer. He played for the club from 1985 to 1990, during which he won 23 caps for East Germany. He later made 51 appearances for Germany, winning the European Championship in 1996 and played at club level for VfB Stuttgart, Internazionale and Borussia Dortmund. With the latter, he won two German titles, the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup, and was named European Footballer of the Year in 1996.

Domestic

 * DDR-Oberliga
 * Champions: 1952–53, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1988–89, 1989–90
 * Runners-up: 1951–52, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1990–91
 * FDGB-Pokal
 * Winners: 1952, 1970–71, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1989–90 (record, shared with 1. FC Magdeburg)
 * Runners-up: 1971–72, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1977–78
 * DFV-Supercup
 * Runners-up: 1989
 * Deutschland Cup
 * Winners: 1990
 * 3. Liga
 * Champions: 2015–16, 2020–21
 * Play-off winners: 2010–11

Regional

 * Regionalliga Nord (III)
 * Runners-up: 2003–04 (promoted)
 * NOFV-Oberliga (IV)
 * Winners: 2002
 * Sachsenliga (VI)
 * Winners: 2009
 * Saxony Cup (III–VI)
 * Winners: 2003, 2007, 2009, 2024

Youth

 * Next Generation Oberliga (Nachwuchsoberliga) (de)
 * Winners: 1979, 1983
 * Runners-up: 1977
 * East German Junior Championship (de)
 * Champions: 1962, 1972, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1988 (record)
 * Runners-up: 1975, 1983, 1984, 1987
 * East German Youth Championship (de)
 * Champions: 1983, 1988, 1989
 * Runners-up: 1982, 1990
 * East German Junior Cup (Junge Welt-Pokal) (de)
 * Winners: 1976, 1985, 1986, 1987 (record, shared with 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig)
 * East German Youth Cup (Youth FDGB-Pokal)
 * Winners: 1973, 1989
 * U17 NOFV Cup (de)
 * Winners: 2003, 2017
 * Runners-up: 2006

Other

 * Indoor-Regio-Cup
 * Winners: 2007

European

 * UEFA Cup
 * Semi-finalists: 1988–89
 * Intertoto Cup
 * Co-winners: 1993

Doubles

 * DDR-Oberliga and FDGB-Pokal
 * Winners: 1970–71, 1976–77, 1989–90 (record)

title: Dynamo Dresden